Chest radiography with a flat-panel detector: Image quality with dose reduction after copper filtration

Radiology

Volumn 237, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 691-700

  Hamer, Okka W ^a   Sirlin, Claude B ^b   Strotzer, Michael ^c   Borisch, Ingitha ^a   Zorger, Niels ^a   Feuerbach, Stefan ^a   Völk, Markus ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^b UCSD MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c Department of Neurology   (Germany)

^d Department of Radiology   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CESIUM; CESIUM IODIDE; COPPER; IODIDE; SILICON; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AGED; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPPER FILTRATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; FLAT PANEL DETECTOR; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE QUALITY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

CESIUM; COPPER; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IODIDES; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SILICON; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; X-RAY INTENSIFYING SCREENS;

EID: 27144529932     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2372041738     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (39)

1. Behrman RH, Yasuda G. Effective dose in diagnostic radiology as a function of x-ray beam filtration for a constant exit dose and constant film density. Med Phys 1998;25: 780-790.
2. Shrimpton PC, Jones DG, Wall BF. The influence of tube filtration and potential on patient dose during x-ray examinations. Phys Med Biol 1988;33:1205-1212.
3. Huda W, Bissessur K. Effective dose equivalents, HE, in diagnostic radiology. Med Phys 1990;17:998-1003.
4. Nagel HD. Comparison of performance characteristics of conventional and K-edge filters in general diagnostic radiology. Phys Med Biol 1989;34:1269-1287.
5. Rossi RP, Harnisch B, Hendee WR. Reduction of radiation exposure in radiography of the chest. Radiology 1982;144:909-914.
6. Regano LJ, Sutton RA. Radiation dose reduction in diagnostic x-ray procedures. Phys Med Biol 1992;37:1773-1788.
7. Villagran JE, Hobbs BB, Taylor KW. Reduction of patient exposure by use of heavy elements as radiation filters in diagnostic radiology. Radiology 1978;127:249-254.
8. Koedooder K, Venema HW. Filter materials for dose reduction in screen-film radiography. Phys Med Biol 1986;31:585-600.
9. Kotter E, Langer M. Digital radiography with large-area flat-panel detectors. Eur Radiol 2002;12:2562-2570.
10. Chotas HG, Dobbins JT III, Ravin CE. Principles of digital radiography with large-area, electronically readable detectors: a review of the basics. Radiology 1999;210: 595-599.
11. Spahn M, Strotzer M, Volk M, et al. Digital radiography with a large-area, amorphous-silicon, flat-panel x-ray detector system. Invest Radiol 2000;35:260-266.
12. Dobbins JT III, Ergun DL, Rutz L, Hinshaw DA, Blume H, Clark DC. DQE(f) of four generations of computed radiography acquisition devices. Med Phys 1995;22:1581-1593.
13. Siewerdsen JH, Antonuk LE, El Mohri Y, Yorkston J, Huang W, Cunningham IA. Signal, noise power spectrum, and detective quantum efficiency of indirect-detection flat-panel imagers for diagnostic radiology. Med Phys 1998;25:614-628.
14. Aufrichtig R, Xue P. Dose efficiency and low-contrast detectability of an amorphous silicon x-ray detector for digital radiography. Phys Med Biol 2000;45:2653-2669.
15. Rapp-Bernhardt U, Roehl FW, Gibbs RC, Schmidl H, Krause UW, Bernhardt TM. Flat-panel x-ray detector based on amorphous silicon versus asymmetric screen-film system: phantom study of dose reduction and depiction of simulated findings. Radiology 2003;227:484-492.
16. Hosch WP, Fink C, Radeleff B, Kampschulte A, Kauffmann GW, Hansmann J. Radiation dose reduction in chest radiography using a flat-panel amorphous silicon detector. Clin Radiol 2002;57:902-907.
17. Bacher K, Smeets P, Bonnarens K, De Hauwere A, Verstraete K, Thierens H. Dose reduction in patients undergoing chest imaging: digital amorphous silicon flat-panel detector radiography versus conventional film-screen radiography and phosphor-based computed radiography. AJR Am J Roentgenol 2003;181:923-929.
18. Ganten M, Radeleff B, Kampschulte A, Daniels MD, Kauffmann GW, Hansmann J. Comparing image quality of flat-panel chest radiography with storage phosphor radiography and film-screen radiography. AJR Am J Roentgenol 2003;181:171-176.
19. Herrmann A, Bonel H, Stabler A, et al. Chest imaging with flat-panel detector at low and standard doses: comparison with storage phosphor technology in normal patients. Eur Radiol 2002;12:385-390.
20. Goo JM, Im JG, Lee HJ, et al. Detection of simulated chest lesions by using soft-copy reading: comparison of an amorphous silicon flat-panel-detector system and a storage-phosphor system. Radiology 2002;224: 242-246.
21. Strotzer M, Gmeinwieser JK, Volk M, Frund R, Seitz J, Feuerbach S. Detection of simulated chest lesions with normal and reduced radiation dose: comparison of conventional screen-film radiography and a flat-panel x-ray detector based on amorphous silicon. Invest Radiol 1998;33:98-103.
22. Strotzer M, Volk M, Frund R, Hamer O, Zorger N, Feuerbach S. Routine chest radiography using a flat-panel detector: image quality at standard detector dose and 33% dose reduction. AJR Am J Roentgenol 2002;178:169-171.
23. Fink C, Hallscheidt PJ, Noeldge G, et al. Clinical comparative study with a large-area amorphous silicon flat-panel detector: image quality and visibility of anatomic structures on chest radiography. AJR Am J Roentgenol 2002;178:481-486.
24. ACR practice guideline for the performance of pediatric and adult chest radiography. American College of Radiology Web site. http://www.acr.org/s_acr/ bin .asp?CID=0&D1D=12194&DOC=FILE .PDF. Accessed August 7, 2005.
25. Commission of the European Communities. European guidelines on quality criteria for diagnostic radiographic images. Publication EUR-16260. Brussels, Belgium: Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, 1996.
26. Goo JM, Im JG, Kim JH, et al. Digital chest radiography with a selenium-based flat-panel detector versus a storage phosphor system: comparison of soft-copy images. AJR Am J Roentgenol 2000;175:1013-1018.
27. Hennigs SP, Garmer M, Jaeger HJ, et al. Digital chest radiography with a large-area flat-panel silicon x-ray detector: clinical comparison with conventional radiography. Eur Radiol 2001;11:1688-1696.
28. Floyd CE Jr, Baker JA, Chotas HG, Delong DM, Ravin CE. Selenium-based digital radiography of the chest: radiologists' preference compared with film-screen radiographs. AJR Am J Roentgenol 1995;165: 1353-1358.
29. Woodard PK, Slone RM, Gierada DS, Reiker GG, Pilgram TK, Jost RG. Chest radiography: depiction of normal anatomy and pathologic structures with selenium-based digital radiography versus conventional screen-film radiography. Radiology 1997;203:197-201.
30. Whitehead J. Sample size calculations for ordered categorical data. Stat Med 1993; 12:2257-2271.
31. Dobbins JT III, Samei E, Chotas HG, et al. Chest radiography: optimization of x-ray spectrum for cesium iodide-amorphous silicon flat-panel detector. Radiology 2003; 226:221-230.
32. Chotas HG, Floyd CE Jr, Dobbins JT III, Ravin CE. Digital chest radiography with photostimulable storage phosphors: signal-to-noise ratio as a function of kilovoltage with matched exposure risk. Radiology 1993;186:395-398.
33. Floyd CE Jr, Warp RJ, Dobbins JT III, et al. Imaging characteristics of an amorphous silicon flat-panel detector for digital chest radiography. Radiology 2001;218:683-688.
34. Hedlund LW, Vock P, Effmann EL. Computed tomography of the lung: densitometric studies. Radiol Clin North Am 1983;21:775-788.
35. Hedlund LW, Jones DP, Effmann EL, et al. A computed tomographic study of the dog lung during hemorrhagic shock and after resuscitation. Invest Radiol 1981;16:466-472.
36. Goodfellow PMMA material information. Goodfellow Corporation Web site, www .goodfellow.com/csp/active/static/A/ME30 .HTML. Accessed August 7, 2005.
37. Behrman RH. The impact of increased Al filtration on x-ray tube loading and image quality in diagnostic radiology. Med Phys 2003;30:69-78.
38. Hamer OW, Volk M, Zorger Z, Feuerbach S, Strotzer M. Amorphous silicon, flat-panel, x-ray detector versus storage phosphor-based computed radiography: contrast-detail phantom study at different tube voltages and detector entrance doses. Invest Radiol 2003;38:212-220.
39. Volk M, Paetzel C, Angele P. Routine skeleton radiography using a flat-panel detector: image quality and clinical acceptance at 50% dose reduction. Invest Radiol 2003; 38:230-235.