Determination of the chemical composition of human renal stones with MDCT: influence of the surrounding media

Romain Grosjean; Benoît Sauer; Rui Guerra; Isabelle Kermarrec; Yannick Ponvianne; Daniel Winninger; Michel Daudon; Alain Blum; Jacques Felblinger; Jacques Hubert

doi:10.1117/12.707581

10 May 2007 Determination of the chemical composition of human renal stones with MDCT: influence of the surrounding media

Romain Grosjean, Benoît Sauer, Rui Guerra, Isabelle Kermarrec, Yannick Ponvianne, Daniel Winninger, Michel Daudon, Alain Blum, Jacques Felblinger, Jacques Hubert

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Proceedings Volume 6511, Medical Imaging 2007: Physiology, Function, and Structure from Medical Images; 65112O (2007) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.707581
Event: Medical Imaging, 2007, San Diego, CA, United States

Abstract

The selection of the optimal treatment method for urinary stones diseases depends on the chemical composition of the stone and its corresponding fragility. MDCT has become the most used modality to determine rapidly and accurately the presence of stones when evaluating urinary lithiasis treatment. That is why several studies have tempted to determine the chemical composition of the stones based on the stone X-ray attenuation in-vitro and invivo. However, in-vitro studies did not reproduce the normal abdominal wall and fat, making uncertain the standardization of the obtained values. The aim of this study is to obtain X-ray attenuation values (in Hounsfield Units) of the six more frequent types of human renal stones (n=217) and to analyze the influence of the surrounding media on these values. The stones were first placed in a jelly, which X-ray attenuation is similar to that of the human kidney (30 HU at 120 kV). They were then stuck on a grid, scanned in a water tank and finally scanned in the air. Significant differences in CT-attenuation values were obtained with the three different surrounding media (jelly, water, air). Furthermore there was an influence of the surrounding media and consequently discrepancies in determination of the chemical composition of the renal stones. Consequently, CT-attenuation values found in in-vitro studies cannot really be considered as a reference for the determination of the chemical composition except if the used phantom is an anthropomorphic one.

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Romain Grosjean, Benoît Sauer, Rui Guerra, Isabelle Kermarrec, Yannick Ponvianne, Daniel Winninger, Michel Daudon, Alain Blum, Jacques Felblinger, and Jacques Hubert "Determination of the chemical composition of human renal stones with MDCT: influence of the surrounding media", Proc. SPIE 6511, Medical Imaging 2007: Physiology, Function, and Structure from Medical Images, 65112O (10 May 2007); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.707581

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