Noise and dose reduction in CT brain perfusion acquisition by projecting time attenuation curves onto lower dimensional spaces

Vojtech Kulvait; Philip Hoelter; Daniel Punzet; Arnd Doerfler M.D.; Georg Rose

doi:10.1117/12.2611432

4 April 2022 Noise and dose reduction in CT brain perfusion acquisition by projecting time attenuation curves onto lower dimensional spaces

Vojtech Kulvait, Philip Hoelter, Daniel Punzet, Arnd Doerfler M.D., Georg Rose

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Proceedings Volume 12031, Medical Imaging 2022: Physics of Medical Imaging; 1203133 (2022) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2611432
Event: SPIE Medical Imaging, 2022, San Diego, California, United States

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CT perfusion imaging (CTP) plays an important role in decision making for the treatment of acute ischemic stroke with large vessel occlusion. Since the CT perfusion scan time is approximately one minute, the patient is exposed to a non-negligible dose of ionizing radiation. However, further dose reduction increases the level of noise in the data and the resulting perfusion maps. We present a method for reducing noise in perfusion data based on dimension reduction of time attenuation curves. For dimension reduction, we use either the fit of the first five terms of the trigonometric polynomial or the first five terms of the SVD decomposition of the time attenuation profiles. CTP data from four patients with large vessel occlusion and three control subjects were studied. To compare the noise level in the perfusion maps, we use the wavelet estimation of the noise standard deviation implemented in the scikit-image package. We show that both methods significantly reduce noise in the data while preserving important information about the perfusion deficits. These methods can be used to further reduce the dose in CT perfusion protocols or in perfusion studies using C-arm CT, which are burdened by high noise levels.

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Vojtech Kulvait, Philip Hoelter, Daniel Punzet, Arnd Doerfler M.D., and Georg Rose "Noise and dose reduction in CT brain perfusion acquisition by projecting time attenuation curves onto lower dimensional spaces", Proc. SPIE 12031, Medical Imaging 2022: Physics of Medical Imaging, 1203133 (4 April 2022); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2611432

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