Micro-angiography for neuro-vascular imaging. II. Cascade model analysis.

Abstract:

:A micro-angiographic detector was designed and its performance was previously tested to evaluate its feasibility as an improvement over current x-ray detectors for neuro-interventional imaging. The detector was shown to have a modulation transfer function value of about 2% at the Nyquist frequency of 10 cycles/mm and a zero frequency detective quantum efficiency [DQE(0)] value of about 55%. An assessment of the system was required to evaluate whether the current system was performing at its full potential and to determine if any of its components could be optimized to further improve the output. For the purpose, in this study, the parallel cascade theory was used to analyze the performance of the detector under neuro-angiographic conditions by studying the output at the various stages in the imaging chain. A simple model for the spread of light in the CsI(Tl) entrance phosphor was developed and the resolution degradation due to K-fluorescence absorption was calculated. The total gain of the system was found to result in 21 e(-) (rms) detected at the charge coupled device per absorbed x-ray photon. The gain and the spread of quanta in the imaging chain were used to calculate theoretically the DQE using the parallel cascade model. The results of the model-based calculations matched fairly well with the experimental data previously obtained. This model was then used to optimize the phosphor thickness for the detector. The results showed that the area under the DQE curve had a maximum value at 150 microm of CsI(Tl), though when weighted by the squared signal in frequency space of a 100-microm-diam iodinated vessel, the integral DQE reached a maximum at 250 microm of CsI(Tl). Further, possible locations for gain increase in the imaging chain were determined, and the output of the improved system was simulated. Thus a theoretical analysis for the micro-angiographic detector was performed to better assess its potential.

journal_name

Med Phys

journal_title

Medical physics

authors

Ganguly A,Rudin S,Bednarek DR,Hoffmann KR

doi

10.1118/1.1617550

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2003-11-01 00:00:00

pages

3029-39

issue

11

eissn

0094-2405

issn

2473-4209

journal_volume

30

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