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Paper Abstract
Pulmonary ventilation and blood flow are reflected in dynamic chest radiographs as changes in X-ray translucency, i.e.,
pixel values. This study was performed to investigate the feasibility of ventilation-perfusion (V/Q) study based on the
changes in pixel value. Sequential chest radiographs of a patient with ventilation-perfusion mismatch were obtained
during respiration using a dynamic flat-panel detector (FPD) system. The lung area was recognized and average pixel
value was measured in each area, tracking and deforming the region of interest. Inter-frame differences were then
calculated, and the absolute values were summed in each respiratory phase. The results were visualized as ventilation,
blood flow, V/Q ratio distribution map and compared to distribution of radioactive counts on ventilation and perfusion
scintigrams. In the results, abnormalities were appeared as a reduction of changes in pixel values, and a correlation was
observed between the distribution of changes in pixel value and those of radioactivity counts (Ventilation; r=0.78,
Perfusion; r=0.77). V/Q mismatch was also indicated as mismatch of changes in pixel value, and a correlation with V/Q
calculated by radioactivity counts (r=0.78). These results indicated that the present method is potentially useful for V/Q
study as an additional examination in conventional chest radiography.
Paper Details
Date Published: 15 March 2011
PDF: 7 pages
Proc. SPIE 7965, Medical Imaging 2011: Biomedical Applications in Molecular, Structural, and Functional Imaging, 79651Y (15 March 2011); doi: 10.1117/12.877603
Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 7965:
Medical Imaging 2011: Biomedical Applications in Molecular, Structural, and Functional Imaging
John B. Weaver; Robert C. Molthen, Editor(s)
PDF: 7 pages
Proc. SPIE 7965, Medical Imaging 2011: Biomedical Applications in Molecular, Structural, and Functional Imaging, 79651Y (15 March 2011); doi: 10.1117/12.877603
Show Author Affiliations
R. Tanaka, Kanazawa Univ. (Japan)
S. Sanada, Kanazawa Univ. (Japan)
M. Fujimura, Kanazawa Univ. (Japan)
M. Yasui, Kanazawa Univ. (Japan)
S. Tsuji, Public Central Hospital of Matto Ishikawa (Japan)
S. Sanada, Kanazawa Univ. (Japan)
M. Fujimura, Kanazawa Univ. (Japan)
M. Yasui, Kanazawa Univ. (Japan)
S. Tsuji, Public Central Hospital of Matto Ishikawa (Japan)
N. Hayashi, Kanazawa Univ. Hospital (Japan)
H. Okamoto, Kanazawa Univ. (Japan)
Y. Nanbu, Kanazawa Univ. Hospital (Japan)
O. Matsui, Kanazawa Univ. Hospital (Japan)
H. Okamoto, Kanazawa Univ. (Japan)
Y. Nanbu, Kanazawa Univ. Hospital (Japan)
O. Matsui, Kanazawa Univ. Hospital (Japan)
Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 7965:
Medical Imaging 2011: Biomedical Applications in Molecular, Structural, and Functional Imaging
John B. Weaver; Robert C. Molthen, Editor(s)
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