The primary study of low-dose pancreas perfusion by 640- slice helical CT: a whole-organ perfusion
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- 21 April 2015
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in SpringerPlus
- Vol. 4 (1), 1-7
- https://doi.org/10.1186/s40064-015-0950-6
Abstract
To discuss the feasibility of low-dose whole-pancreas imaging utilizing 640-slice dynamic volume CT.80 patients (40 cases of normal pancreas and 40 patients supposed of having pancreatic carcinoma or focal pancreatic space-occupying lesions were mainly refered) referred for CT pancreas perfusion were enrolled in the study. 80 patients randomly assigned to 3 groups: Group ① (whole sequence). Group ② (odd number sequence). Group ③ (even number group)(Compared to ①, the scanning times and effective radiate dose of ② and ③ decreased about 50% respectively). The head, body, tail of each normal pancreas without any pancreatic disease, lesion and lesion-surrounding areas of each pancreatic cancer were selected as ROI, and tissue peak, blood flow are measured.According to pathology and clinical materials, 27 patients were diagnosed as pancreatic cancer; 40 patients were diagnosed as normal pancreas. The tissue peak and blood flow of the head, body, tail of normal pancreas without any pancreatic disease are 109.63 ± 16.60 and 131.90 ± 41.61, 104.38 ± 19.39 and 127.78 ± 42.52, 104.55 ± 15. 44 and 123.50 ± 33.44 respectively. The tissue peak and blood flow of pancreatic cancer is 59.59 ± 18.20 and 60.00 ± 15.36. For and between each group, there is no significant statistical difference for the tissue peak and blood flow of normal areas of the head, body, tail of normal pancreas. There is statistical difference for the tissue peak and blood flow of lesion and lesion-surrounding areas of pancreatic cancer in each group. However, there is no statistical difference for the tissue peak and blood flow of normal and diseasing areas between 3 groups.Low-dose whole-pancreas perfusion with 640-slice dynamic volume CT is feasible.Keywords
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