Integration of high velocity test object motion into a channelized Hotelling observer for the assessment of x-ray angiography systems

Physics in Medicine and Biology
Ashley Tao, Kenneth Fetterly

Abstract

Assessment of x-ray angiography system performance is typically performed using stationary test objects with simple geometries such as a disk on a uniform background. However, these methods do not represent realistic imaging conditions in interventional cardiology as anatomy and devices are inherently non-stationary due to cardiac motion. In this work, a novel implementation of the channelized Hotelling observer (CHO) was used to assess the influence of motion blur on object detectability. A standard CHO model assumes imaging system stationarity whereby the detectability index [Formula: see text] of a test object is independent of location. However, real angiography systems are inherently non-stationary. While vendor correction gain factors and offset maps are used to compensate for visual non-uniformities, these corrections do not restore stationarity to the images. Methods to accommodate non-stationarity and allow assessment of the influence of motion blur on test object detectability will be presented. The effect of motion blur was quantified with the relative detectability index ([Formula: see text]), where the [Formula: see text] for an object when moving with constant linear velocity was compared to a low velocity 'pseudo...Continue Reading

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