Statistical characteristics of streak artifacts on CT images: Relationship between streak artifacts and mA s values
- 22 January 2009
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in Medical Physics
- Vol. 36 (2), 492-499
- https://doi.org/10.1118/1.3056554
Abstract
The purpose of this study is to investigate how streak artifacts on computed tomography(CT)images vary with reduction in radiationdoses by assessing the quantitative relationship between the streak artifacts and milliampere-time product (mA s) values. A commercially available chest phantom was used to measure the streak artifacts on the CTimages obtained using a 4- and 16-multidetector-row helical CT scanners with various mA s values at a constant tube voltage of 120 kVp . The cardiac slice image was employed as a target image for evaluating the streak artifacts on the CTimage. Eighty parallel line segments with a length of 20 pixels were placed perpendicular to numerous streak artifacts on the cardiac slice image, and the largest difference between adjacent CT values in each of the 80 CT-value profiles of these line segments was employed as a feature variable of streak artifacts; these feature variables have been analyzed by the extreme value theory. The largest difference between adjacent CT values in each CT-value profile can be statistically modeled by a Gumbel distribution. Further, the maximum level of streak artifacts on CTimages that will be tolerated for clinical use and low-dose CT screening examination was expected to be estimated using the location parameter in the Gumbel distribution.Keywords
Funding Information
- MESSC-JP (20591474)
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