Abstract
Objective: To explore the significance of dual-energy CT non-linear fusion technique in improving the quality of CTA image of renal cancer. Methods: The CTA images of 100 patients who had been confirmed by pathology as renal cancer were collected and were randomly divided into experimental group and control group with 50 cases respectively. The two groups of patients were treated with iodine concentration of 300 mg/ml and 350 mg/ml non-ionic contrast agent, with a dosage of 1.5 ml/kg and an injection rate of 4 ml/s. The contrast agent intelligently tracking method was adopted bolus. The control group used the conventional CTA scanning, with a reference tube voltage/tube current of 100 kv/ref150 mas. The experimental group adopted the double energy scanning, with ball tube A and ball tube B. The reference tube voltage/tube current was 100 kv/ref250 mas and sn150 kv/ref125 mas respectively. The images of the experimental group were non-linear fused to obtain the Mono+ 55 kev single-energy images. The CT value, SNR contrast ratio of the abdominal aorta, renal artery and tumor tissue of the experimental group images and the 100 KV images and the Mono+ 55 kev images of the control group were compared. The objective evaluation and subjective evaluation of the image quality of the three groups of images was performed. Results: The results showed that the 100 kV images of the experimental group were statistically different from those of the control group (P05) in CT value, SNR and CNR (P 0.05). The subjective evaluation of image quality showed that there was no significant difference between Mono+ 55 kev images and control group images, and the quality of Mono+ 55 kev images was higher than that of experimental group 100 kV images. Conclusion: The dual-energy CT non-linear fusion technique can improve the quality of CTA image in patients with renal cancer, and it is possible to obtain high quality CTA images with low iodine concentration contrast agent.
Highlights
With the wide application of dual-energy CT and the continuous innovation of technology, different post-processing and analysis algorithms have been continuously developed
The CTA images of 100 patients who had been confirmed by pathology as renal cancer were collected and were randomly divided into experimental group and control group with 50 cases respectively
The results showed that the 100 kV images of the experimental group were statistically different from those of the control group (P05) in CT value, SNR and contrast noise ratio (CNR) (P < 0.05)
Summary
With the wide application of dual-energy CT and the continuous innovation of technology, different post-processing and analysis algorithms have been continuously developed. Due to the strong absorption ability of high atomic number substances, such as iodine contrast agent to low-energy X-ray photons, in low-energy single energy spectrum images, contrast agent enhanced blood vessels and lesions and other tissues can be used to optimize the display of lesions. In recent years, this new technique has been reported continuously in abdominal clinical applications [2] [3] [4]. It is believed that this technique can improve image contrast and blood vessel display quality, reduce noise and improve image quality as well as the detection rate of small lesions. The purpose of this paper is to study the significance of dual-energy CT non-linear fusion technology in improving CTA image quality of renal cancer patients, and to achieve high-quality CTA image with low-concentration iodine contrast agent
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