Abstract
Digitally reconstructed radiographs produced from a commercial CT simulator have been evaluated using an in-house test phantom. The phantom consists of a polystyrene cubic block of dimension 15 cm. It contains four test patterns to measure contrast detail, modulation transfer function, ray line divergence accuracy, and spatial distortion. A total of six CT data sets, which vary by CT slice thickness and separation between slices, as well as CT slice reconstruction area have been used to analyze digitally reconstructed radiographs produced by the system. Results show that contrast detail is independent of slice thickness and separation but dependent upon slice reconstruction area for small object diameters (< or = 1.5 mm). Half field (24-cm diameter) reconstruction images provide lower threshold contrasts than full field (48-cm diameter) scans. The modulation transfer function for each data set was calculated and the spatial frequency at which the modulation transfer function is 50% (f50) of the maximum indicates that high contrast resolution depends on slice thickness for both the full and half field reconstructions. For full field scans, f50 values were 0.19, 0.10, and 0.10 line pairs/mm for the 2 mm/2 mm (slice thickness/sepa...Continue Reading
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