Abstract
We have developed a digitally synthesized patient which we call "Zach" (Zero millisecond Adjustable Clinical Heart) phantom, which allows for an access to the ground truth and assessment of image-based cardiac functional analysis (CFA) using CT images with clinically realistic settings. The study using Zach phantom revealed a major problem with image-based CFA: "False dyssynchrony." Even though the true motion of wall segments is in synchrony, it may appear to be dyssynchrony with the reconstructed cardiac CT images. It is attributed to how cardiac images are reconstructed and how wall locations are updated over cardiac phases. The presence and the degree of false dyssynchrony may vary from scan-to-scan, which could degrade the accuracy and the repeatability (or precision) of image-based CT-CFA exams.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Medical Imaging 2017 |
| Subtitle of host publication | Physics of Medical Imaging |
| Editors | Taly Gilat Schmidt, Joseph Y. Lo, Thomas G. Flohr |
| Publisher | SPIE |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781510607095 |
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| State | Published - 2017 |
| Event | Medical Imaging 2017: Physics of Medical Imaging - Orlando, United States Duration: 13 Feb 2017 → 16 Feb 2017 |
Publication series
| Name | Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE |
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| Volume | 10132 |
| ISSN (Print) | 1605-7422 |
Conference
| Conference | Medical Imaging 2017: Physics of Medical Imaging |
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| Country/Territory | United States |
| City | Orlando |
| Period | 13/02/17 → 16/02/17 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2017 SPIE.
Keywords
- Cardiac function analysis
- Computed tomography
- Dyssynchrony