Enhancement and Restoring of Low Dose Abdominal CT Images

Lars Borgen

Status and phase

Completed

Phase 1

Conditions

Radiation Protection

Treatments

Other: Using a 3 dimentional post processing filter

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT01059032

15017044793

Details and patient eligibility

About

Through the rapid growth of multislice Computer Tomography (CT) imaging, radiation protection has become a major issue in the radiological community. Optimizing CT scanning is a key task when keeping the radiation doses as low as reasonable achievable (the ALARA principle). Post processing filters can improve and restore grainy and noisy low dose CT images by enhancing structure and reducing image noise. In our study of 10 patients, the investigators perform a preliminary evaluation of a novel post processing filter, which does picture element correlations in all three spatial dimensions. By comparing normal dose pictures with unprocessed low-dose pictures and pictures processed with two dimentional (2D) and three dimentional (3D) filters,the investigators will be able to assess the possible clinical value of the 3D filter. This project is collaboration between Buskerud Hospital (BU), Buskerud University College, Norwegian Radiation Protection Authority (NRPA) and Center for Medical Image Science and Visualization (CMIV). The project is part of the PhD of Lars Borgen.

Enrollment

12 patients

Sex

All

Ages

60 to 90 years old

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Outpatients, Male or female,Age above 60 years, Referred to our department for an abdominal CT with intravenous contrast.

Exclusion criteria

Abdominal diameter less than 80cm or larger than 100cm, Gross pancreatic pathology, Gross anatomic anomalies in the investigated region, Intolerance of intravenous contrast