Journal
RADIOLOGY
Volume 229, Issue 1, Pages 255-260Publisher
RADIOLOGICAL SOC NORTH AMERICA
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2291020370
Keywords
computed tomography (CT), angiography; computed tomography (CT), maximum intensity projection
Funding
- NHLBI NIH HHS [R01 HL058915-04, 1R01 HL 67194, R01 HL058915-02, 5R01 HL 58915, R01 HL058915-03, R01 HL058915-01A2] Funding Source: Medline
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The authors developed and evaluated a method to produce curved-slab maximum intensity projections (MIPs) through blood vessels that semiautomatically excludes soft tissue and bone. Results obtained with the algorithm were compared with those obtained with rectangular-slab MIPs by using computed tomographic (CT) data from four patients with abdominal aortic aneurysms. Curved-slab MIPs exhibited increased mean vessel-to-perivascular tissue contrast of 55.1 HU (36%), allowed a 10% increase in contrast-to-noise ratio, and decreased apparent vessel narrowing by 0.12-1.09 mm, without increasing processing time. Curved-slab MIPs may also include multiple vessels in a single image, thereby improving interpretation efficiency by reducing the number of MIPs required in these patients from eight to three. (C) RSNA, 2003.
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