Effect of scan projection radiography coverage on tube current modulation in pediatric and adult chest CT.

Zeitschrift für medizinische Physik
Kostas PerisinakisJohn Damilakis

Abstract

To investigate the effect of scan projection radiography (SPR) coverage on tube current modulation in pediatric and adult thoracic CT examinations. Sixty pediatric and 60 adult chest CT examinations were retrospectively studied to determine the incidence rate of examinations involving SPRs that did not include the entire image volume (IV) or the entire primarily exposed body volume (PEBV). The routine chest CT acquisition procedure on a modern 64-slice CT system was imitated on five anthropomorphic phantoms of different size. SPRs of varying length were successively acquired. The same IV was prescribed each time and the computed tube current modulation plan was recorded. The SPR boundaries were altered symmetrically by several steps of ±10mm with respect to the IV boundaries. The upper IV boundary was found to be excluded from SPR in 52% of pediatric and 40% adult chest CT examinations. The corresponding values for the lower boundary were 15% and 20%, respectively. The computed tube current modulation was found to be considerably affected when the SPR did not encompass the entire IV. SPR deficit of 3cm was found to induce up to 46% increase in the computed tube current value to be applied during the first tube rotations over lu...Continue Reading

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