Impact of Adaptive Statistical Iterative Reconstruction-V on Coronary Artery Calcium Scores Obtained From Low-Tube-Voltage Computed Tomography - A Patient Study.

Kamani, Christel H; Huang, Wenjie; Lutz, Joel; Giannopoulos, Andreas A; Patriki, Dimitri; von Felten, Elia; Schwyzer, Moritz; Gebhard, Catherine; Benz, Dominik C; Fuchs, Tobias A; Gräni, Christoph; Pazhenkottil, Aju P; Kaufmann, Philipp A; Buechel, Ronny R (2022). Impact of Adaptive Statistical Iterative Reconstruction-V on Coronary Artery Calcium Scores Obtained From Low-Tube-Voltage Computed Tomography - A Patient Study. Academic radiology, 29(S4), S11-S16. Elsevier 10.1016/j.acra.2020.10.025

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OBJECTIVE

To evaluate the impact of adaptive statistical iterative reconstruction-V (ASIR-V) on the accuracy of ultra-low-dose coronary artery calcium (CAC) scoring.

MATERIALS AND METHOD

One-hundred-and-three patients who underwent computed tomography (CT) for CAC scoring were prospectively included. All underwent standard scanning with 120-kilovolt-peak (kVp) and with 80- and 70-kVp tube voltage. ASiR-V was applied to the 80- and 70-kVp scans at different levels. The 120-kVp scans reconstructed with filtered back projection served as the standard of reference. Recently published novel kVp-adapted thresholds were used for calculation of CAC scores from 80- and 70-kVp scans and the resulting CAC scores were compared against the standard of reference. Patients were stratified into six CAC score risk categories: 0, 1-10, 11-100, 101-400, 401-1000, and >1000.

RESULTS

Increasing levels of ASIR-V led to an increasing underestimation of CAC scores with bias ranging from -128 to -118 and from -205 to -198 for the 80- and 70-kVp scans, respectively, when compared with the standard of reference. Reconstruction with 20% and 40% ASIR-V for the 80- and 70-kVp scans, respectively, yielded noise levels comparable to the standard of reference. Nevertheless, a change in risk-class was observed in 29 (28.6%) and 46 (44.7%) patients, exclusively to a lower risk-class, when CAC scores were derived from these reconstructions.

CONCLUSION

ASIR-V leads to noise reduction in CT scans acquired with low tube-voltages. However, ASIR-V introduces substantial inaccuracies and marked underestimation of ultra-low-dose CAC scoring as compared with standard-dose CAC scoring despite normalization of noise.

Item Type:

Journal Article (Original Article)

Division/Institute:

04 Faculty of Medicine > Department of Cardiovascular Disorders (DHGE) > Clinic of Cardiology

UniBE Contributor:

Gräni, Christoph

Subjects:

600 Technology > 610 Medicine & health

ISSN:

1076-6332

Publisher:

Elsevier

Language:

English

Submitter:

Vjollca Coli

Date Deposited:

27 Dec 2022 15:24

Last Modified:

27 Dec 2022 23:08

Publisher DOI:

10.1016/j.acra.2020.10.025

PubMed ID:

33187851

Uncontrolled Keywords:

Coronary artery calcium score adaptive statistical iterative reconstruction low tube voltage scans

BORIS DOI:

10.48350/176411

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/176411

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