Perfusion CT of head and neck cancer: Effect of arterial input selection

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 196, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1374-1380

  Tawfik, Ahmed M ^a   Abdel Razek, Ahmed A ^b   Elsorogy, Lamiaa G ^b   Soliman, Nermin Y ^b   Kerl, J Matthias ^a   Mack, Martin G ^a   Vogl, Thomas J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL FRANKFURT   (Germany)

^b MANSOURA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Arterial input; CT; Functional imaging; Head and neck imaging; Perfusion; Time attenuation curve

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; ARTERY PERFUSION; ARTICLE; BLOOD VOLUME; CALCULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; EXTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY; MALE; MEAN TRANSIT TIME; PERMEABILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; SURFACE PROPERTY;

ADULT; AGED; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CAROTID ARTERY, EXTERNAL; CAROTID ARTERY, INTERNAL; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOFTWARE; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 79960486812     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: 15463141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.10.5343     Document Type: Article

References (21)

1. Rumboldt Z, Al-Okaili R, Deveikis JP. Perfusion CT for head and neck tumors: pilot study. AJNR 2005; 26:1178-1185 (Pubitemid 43821970)
2. Zima A, Carlos R, Gandhi D, Case I, Teknos T, Mukherji SK. Can pretreatment CT perfusion predict response of advanced squamous cell carcinoma of the upper aerodigestive tract treated with induction chemotherapy? AJNR 2007; 28:328-334
3. Bisdas S, Baghi M, Wagenblast J, et al. Differentiation of benign and malignant parotid tumors using deconvolution-based perfusion CT imaging: feasibility of the method and initial results. Eur J Radiol 2007; 64:258-265 (Pubitemid 47588748)
4. Ash L, Teknos TN, Gandhi D, Patel S, Mukherji SK. Head and neck squamous cell carcinoma: CT perfusion can help noninvasively predict intratumoral microvessel density. Radiology 2009; 251:422-428
5. Surlan-Popovic K, Bisdas S, Rumboldt Z, Koh TS, Strojan P. Changes in perfusion CT of advanced squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck treated during the course of concomitant chemoradiotherapy. AJNR 2010; 31:570-575
6. Bisdas S, Rumboldt Z, Surlan-Popovic K, et al. Perfusion CT in squamous cell carcinoma of the upper aerodigestive tract: long-term predictive value of baseline perfusion CT measurements. AJNR 2010; 31:576-581
7. Kambadakone AR, Sahani DV. Body perfusion CT: technique, clinical applications, and advances. Radiol Clin North Am 2009; 47:161-178
8. Miracle AC, Rezaei A, Gandhi D, Mukherji SK. CT perfusion of the neck: internal carotid artery versus external carotid artery as the reference artery. AJNR 2009; 30:1598-1601
9. Petralia G, Preda L, Raimondi S, et al. Intra- and interobserver agreement and impact of arterial input selection in perfusion CT measurements performed in squamous cell carcinoma of the upper aerodigestive tract. AJNR 2009; 30:1107-1115
10. Faggioni L, Neri E, Bartolozzi C. CT perfusion of head and neck tumors: how we do it. AJR 2010; 194:62-69
11. Kealey SM, Loving VA, Delong DM, Eastwood JD. User-defined vascular input function curves: influence on mean perfusion parameter values and signal-to-noise ratio. Radiology 2004; 231:587-593 (Pubitemid 38552921)
12. Goh V, Halligan S, Bartram CI. Quantitative tumor perfusion assessment with multidetector CT: are measurements from two commercial software packages interchangeable? Radiology 2007; 242:777-782
13. Sanelli PC, Nicola G, Tsiouris AJ, et al. Reproducibility of postprocessing of quantitative CT perfusion maps. AJR 2007; 188:213-218 (Pubitemid 46012511)
14. Petralia G, Preda L, Giugliano G, et al. Perfusion computed tomography for monitoring induction chemotherapy in patients with squamous cell carcinoma of the upper aerodigestive tract: correlation between changes in tumor perfusion and tumor volume. J Comput Assist Tomogr 2009; 33:552-559
15. Cenic A, Nabavi DG, Craen RA, Gelb AW, Lee TYA. CT method to measure hemodynamics in brain tumors: validation and application of cerebral blood flow maps. AJNR 2000; 21:462-470 (Pubitemid 30149336)
16. Miles KA, Griffiths MR. Perfusion CT: a worthwhile enhancement? Br J Radiol 2003; 76:220-231
17. Axel L. Cerebral blood flow determination by rapid-sequence computed tomography: theoretical analysis. Radiology 1980; 137:679-686 (Pubitemid 11203701)
18. Nabavi DG, Cenic A, Craen RA, et al. CT assessment of cerebral perfusion: experimental validation and initial clinical experience. Radiology 1999; 213:141-149 (Pubitemid 29470420)
19. Sheikh K, Schipper MJ, Hoeffner EG. Feasibility of superficial temporal artery as the input artery for cerebral perfusion CT. AJR 2009; 192:W321-W329
20. Suri MF, Ezzeddine MA, Lakshminarayan K, Divani AA, Qureshi AI. Validation of two different grading schemes to identify patients with asymptomatic carotid artery stenosis in general population. J Neuroimaging 2008; 18:142-147 (Pubitemid 351463966)
21. Wintermark M, Lau BC, Chien J, Arora S. The anterior cerebral artery is an appropriate arterial input function for perfusion-CT processing in patients with acute stroke. Neuroradiology 2008; 50:227-236