Spatial Distribution of Noise Reduction in Four Iterative Reconstruction Algorithms in CT—A Technical Evaluation

Guleng, Anette; Bolstad, Kirsten; Dalehaug, Ingvild; Flatabø, Silje; Aadnevik, Daniel; Pettersen, Helge E. S.

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Spatial Distribution of Noise Reduction in Four Iterative Reconstruction Algorithms in CT—A Technical Evaluation

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Helge E. S. Pettersen

Department of Oncology and Medical Physics, Haukeland University Hospital, 5021 Bergen, Norway

Department of Diagnostic Physics, Oslo University Hospital, 0424 Oslo, Norway

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Diagnostics 2020, 10(9), 647; https://doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics10090647

Received: 29 June 2020 / Revised: 19 August 2020 / Accepted: 25 August 2020 / Published: 28 August 2020

(This article belongs to the Section Medical Imaging and Theranostics)

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Iterative reconstruction (IR) is a computed tomgraphy (CT) reconstruction algorithm aiming at improving image quality by reducing noise in the image. During this process, IR also changes the noise properties in the images. To assess how IR algorithms from four vendors affect the noise properties in CT images, an anthropomorphic phantom was scanned and images reconstructed with filtered back projection (FBP), and a medium and high level of IR. Each image acquisition was performed 30 times at the same slice position, to create noise maps showing the inter-image pixel standard deviation through the 30 images. We observed that IR changed the noise properties in the CT images by reducing noise more in homogeneous areas than at anatomical edges between structures of different densities. This difference increased with increasing IR level, and with increasing difference in density between two adjacent structures. Each vendor’s IR algorithm showed slightly different noise reduction properties in how much noise was reduced at different positions in the phantom. Users need to be aware of these differences when working with optimization of protocols using IR across scanners from different vendors. View Full-Text

Keywords: computed tomography; iterative reconstruction; noise; anthropomorphic phantom; image analysis; inter-image standard deviation; CT vendor comparison

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Guleng, A.; Bolstad, K.; Dalehaug, I.; Flatabø, S.; Aadnevik, D.; Pettersen, H.E.S. Spatial Distribution of Noise Reduction in Four Iterative Reconstruction Algorithms in CT—A Technical Evaluation. Diagnostics 2020, 10, 647. https://doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics10090647

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Guleng A, Bolstad K, Dalehaug I, Flatabø S, Aadnevik D, Pettersen HES. Spatial Distribution of Noise Reduction in Four Iterative Reconstruction Algorithms in CT—A Technical Evaluation. Diagnostics. 2020; 10(9):647. https://doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics10090647

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Guleng, Anette, Kirsten Bolstad, Ingvild Dalehaug, Silje Flatabø, Daniel Aadnevik, and Helge E.S. Pettersen. 2020. "Spatial Distribution of Noise Reduction in Four Iterative Reconstruction Algorithms in CT—A Technical Evaluation" Diagnostics 10, no. 9: 647. https://doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics10090647

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