Egon Burian1,2, Nico Sollmann1, Kai Mei3, Michael Dieckmeyer1, Daniela Juncker2, Maximilian Löffler1, Tobias Greve1,4, Claus Zimmer1, Jan S Kirschke1, Thomas Baum1, Peter B Noël3. 1. Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Neuroradiology, Klinikum rechts der Isar, School of Medicine, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany. 2. Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Klinikum rechts der Isar, School of Medicine, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany. 3. Department of Radiology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA. 4. Department of Neurosurgery, Klinikum der Universität München, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Wasting disease entities like cachexia or sarcopenia are associated with a decreasing muscle mass and changing muscle composition. For valid and reliable disease detection and monitoring diagnostic techniques offering quantitative musculature assessment are needed. Multi-detector computed tomography (MDCT) is a broadly available imaging modality allowing for muscle composition analysis. A major disadvantage of using MDCT for muscle composition assessment is the radiation exposure. In this study we evaluated the performance of different methods of radiation dose reduction for paravertebral muscle composition assessment. METHODS: MDCT scans of eighteen subjects (6 males, age: 71.5±15.9 years, and 12 females, age: 71.0±8.9 years) were retrospectively simulated as if they were acquired at 50%, 10%, 5%, and 3% of the original X-ray tube current or number of projections (i.e., sparse sampling). Images were reconstructed with a statistical iterative reconstruction (SIR) algorithm. Paraspinal muscles (psoas and erector spinae muscles) at the level of L4 were segmented in the original-dose images. Segmentations were superimposed on all low-dose scans and muscle density (MD) extracted. RESULTS: Sparse sampling derived mean MD showed no significant changes (P=0.57 and P=0.22) down to 5% of the original projections in the erector spinae and psoas muscles, respectively. All virtually reduced tube current series showed significantly different (P>0.05) mean MD in the psoas and erector spinae muscles as compared to the original dose except for the images of 5% of the original tube current in the erector spinae muscle. CONCLUSIONS: Our findings demonstrated the possibility of considerable radiation dose reduction using MDCT scans for assessing the composition of the paravertebral musculature. The sparse sampling approach seems to be promising and a potentially superior technique for dose reduction as compared to tube current reduction. 2021 Quantitative Imaging in Medicine and Surgery. All rights reserved.
BACKGROUND: Wasting disease entities like cachexia or sarcopenia are associated with a decreasing muscle mass and changing muscle composition. For valid and reliable disease detection and monitoring diagnostic techniques offering quantitative musculature assessment are needed. Multi-detector computed tomography (MDCT) is a broadly available imaging modality allowing for muscle composition analysis. A major disadvantage of using MDCT for muscle composition assessment is the radiation exposure. In this study we evaluated the performance of different methods of radiation dose reduction for paravertebral muscle composition assessment. METHODS: MDCT scans of eighteen subjects (6 males, age: 71.5±15.9 years, and 12 females, age: 71.0±8.9 years) were retrospectively simulated as if they were acquired at 50%, 10%, 5%, and 3% of the original X-ray tube current or number of projections (i.e., sparse sampling). Images were reconstructed with a statistical iterative reconstruction (SIR) algorithm. Paraspinal muscles (psoas and erector spinae muscles) at the level of L4 were segmented in the original-dose images. Segmentations were superimposed on all low-dose scans and muscle density (MD) extracted. RESULTS: Sparse sampling derived mean MD showed no significant changes (P=0.57 and P=0.22) down to 5% of the original projections in the erector spinae and psoas muscles, respectively. All virtually reduced tube current series showed significantly different (P>0.05) mean MD in the psoas and erector spinae muscles as compared to the original dose except for the images of 5% of the original tube current in the erector spinae muscle. CONCLUSIONS: Our findings demonstrated the possibility of considerable radiation dose reduction using MDCT scans for assessing the composition of the paravertebral musculature. The sparse sampling approach seems to be promising and a potentially superior technique for dose reduction as compared to tube current reduction. 2021 Quantitative Imaging in Medicine and Surgery. All rights reserved.
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