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L3 Projection Radiography Flashcards

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Describe the basic setup for Projection Radiography

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A general overview of Projection Radiography

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A general overview of Projection Radiography

  1. The most commonly used method of medical imaging utilizing X-ray.
  2. Projection of a 3D-volume onto a 2D surface (3D -> 2D).
  3. Represents the transmitted X-ray beam through the patient, weighted by the integrated loss of beam energy due to scattering and absorption in the body.
  4. Also known as Conventional Radiography
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Another name for Conventional Radiography

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Projection Radiography

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Name some advantages with Projection Radiography

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Advantages with Projection Radiography

  1. Short exposure time (0.1second)
  2. Production of large area image (14 x 17 inch)
  3. Low cost
  4. Low radiation exposure
  5. Excellent contrast and spatial resolution
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Name a limitation with Projection Radiography

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Limitation with Projection Radiography

Lack of depth resolution- superimpositions of shadows from overlying and underlying tissues sometimes “hide” important lesions, which limits contrast.

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What would you check with a Chest X-ray?

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Chest X-ray

  1. Airways
  2. Breast shadows
  3. Bones, e.g. rib fractures
  4. Cardiac enlargement
  5. Diaphragm (evidence of free air)
  6. Extrathoracic tissues (thorax)
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What has higher X-ray attenuation - bone or soft tissue?

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Bon has higher X-ray attenuation than soft tissue.

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What do you observe with an abdominal X-ray?

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Abdominal X-ray

  1. Covers liver, spleen, stomach, intestines, pancreas, kidneys and bladder
  2. Bowel obstructions (intestinal obstruction), volvulus and malrotations
  3. Renal, urethral and bladder stones
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Explain Angiography

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Vascular Imaging (Angiography)

  1. Inject Iodine-based contrast agent to study the compromised blood flow
  2. Mainly brain and heart
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Explain Mammography.

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Mammography

  1. Each breast is compressed horizontally (stable, avoid motion artifacts)
  2. X-ray is then illuminated and image is taken on the film plate.
  3. Around 10% of False Alarm rate.
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Explain the principle of generating X-rays in the X-ray Tube

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X-ray Tube

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What kind of X-rays does the X-ray Tube generates?

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X-ray Tube

Generates both Characteristic and Bremsstrahlung X-ray

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What is the Energy efficiency of the X-ray Tube and how is this dealt with to avoid melt down?

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Energy efficiency of the X-ray Tube

  1. 1% of energy is transferred to x-ray
  2. 99% of energy is dissipated as heat during the bombardment
  3. As a result, the anode is set into rotation to avoid melting the anode target (rotates 3200 - 3600rpm).
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What is the purpose of Beam Hardening?

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Purpose of Beam Hardening

Beam hardening = increasing the beam’s ”effective energy”

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Explain Beam Hardening

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Filtering - Beam Hardening

  • Undesirable for low-energy photons to enter the body (almost entirely absorbed within the body – high dose, no contribution to the image)
  • Filter low energy photons by
    • Anode absorbs LE photons
    • X-tube glass/oil housing
    • Extra aluminium filter
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Explain Beam Restriction

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Beam Restriction

  • X-rays that exit from the tube form a cone that is ordinarily much larger than the desired body region to be imaged.
  • The exiting beam must be further restricted
    • To avoid exposing body parts of the patient that need not to be imaged
    • To help reducing the effect of Compton scatter
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Explain Diaphragms and Collimator

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Beam Restriction - Diaphragms and Collimator

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Name some different Compensation Filters

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Compensation Filters

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Explain Scatter Reduction

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Scatter Reduction

  • X-ray that are not absorbed by the body will arrive at the detector from the line segment originate from the x-ray source
  • If the photon is scattered, it will still reach the detector, which will reduce the contrast of the image.
  • Three methods
    • Grid
    • Air gaps
    • Scanning Slits (in front of patient)
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Name three methods for Scatter Reduction

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Three methods for Scatter Reduction

  • Grid
  • Air gaps
  • Scanning Slits (in front of patient)
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Explain Film Screen Detector and how this is dealt with in modern X-ray units

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Film Screen Detector

  • X-ray exposes on today’s radiographic film.
  • Only 1 to 2% of X-ray are stopped by the film.
  • Inefficient!
  • As a result, modern x-ray units always have intensifying screens on both sides of the radiographic film.
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Explain the function of Intensifying Screen

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Intensifying Screen

  • Stop most of the x-ray, converts them into light and then exposes the film.
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Name examples of Film-Screen → Digital systems

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Film-Screen → Digital systems

  • Computed Radiography Systems
  • CCD Based Digital Radiography Systems (DRS)
  • Thin-Film-Transistor-Based DRS
  • CMOS-based DRS
  • Wireless and Rechargeable DR Detectors
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Explain Contrast Agents

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Contrast Agents

  • Contrast agents are chemical compounds that are introduced into the body in order to increase x-ray absorption (attenuation) within the anatomical regions
  • With the agents, X-ray contrast is enhanced (compared with neighboring regions without such agents)
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Give examples of Contrast Agents and application areas
Contrast Agents * Iodine * Blood Vessels * Heart Chambers * Tumours * Kidneys * Bladder * Barium * Stomach * Lung (together with air)
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What is EB (Contrast Agents)
EB (Contrast Agents) EB = K-shell electron binding energy
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Give an overview of the geometry of Projection Radiography
Geometry of Projection Radiography
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What is the Basic Imaging Equation?
Basic Imaging Equation Intensity at the detector
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Name some Geometric Effects
Geometric Effects * Inverse Square Law * Obliquity * Beam Divergence and Flat Detector * Path Length * Depth-dependent Magnification
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What is Inverse Square Law
Inverse Square Law It states that the net flux of photons (i.e. photons per unit area) decreases as 1/r2 , where r is the distance from x-ray origin.
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Explain Inverse Square Law and what the consequence may be if this is not compensated for
Inverse Square Law * Intensity at arbitrary point r(x,y) on the detector plane is given as seen in the picture. * Without compensation, this effect could falsely be interpreted as object attenuation in a circular pattern around the detector origin.
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Explain Obliquity
Obliquity Reduction in beam intensity due to obliquity
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Explain the geometrical depiction of Path Length
Geometrical Depiction of Path Length
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Explain Path Length
Path Length * Consider imaging a slab of material with constant linear attenuation and thickness L. * If not compensated, it will be interpreted as different attenuation within the object or different object thickness. * Ambiguous situation * Radiologist are trained to study radiographic locally * Not a desirable situation for computer-based image analysis.
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Explain Anode Heel Effect
Anode Heel Effect * Generation of x-rays within the anode is isotropic at the atomic level, but the geometry of the anode makes that the x-rays beam’s intensity is not uniform. * X-rays travelling in the directions having more anode material to go through will be attenuated -\> non uniform beam intensity * This effect can outweight the effects of obliquity and inv. sq. law -\> should be compensated by filters
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Explain Depth-dependent magnification and the consequences
Depth-dependent magnification * Consider the object with the height w. * Object’s height wz on the detector is given by: wz=w\*d/z * The magnification M(z) is defined as: M(z)=d/z Consequence: * Two objects within the body of the same size may appear to have different sizes on the radiograph. * Comparison of the radiograph of the same patient taken over months or years can only be made if the same radiographic conditions and patient position is used.
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Explain Imaging Equation with Geometric Effects
Imaging Equation with Geometric Effects * Instead of attenuation, consider the object tz(x,y) as a transmittivity rather than attenuation. * If the object is located at the detector plane, there is no magnification: Iz(x,y)=I0cos3(theta)td(x,y), where cos(theta)=d/sqrt(d2+x2+y2)
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Imaging Equation with Magnification
Imaging Equation with Magnification
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Imaging Equation with Geometric Effects - Overall Expression
Imaging Equation with Geometric Effects - Overall Expression
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Why can we can neglect x-ray refraction in medical imaging?
We can neglect x-ray refraction in medical imaging because:
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Explain local SNR at each detector (Noise)
Local SNR at each detector (Noise)
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Explain what happens if we consider the effect of Compton Scattering on SNR
Effect of Compton Scattering on SNR
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Explain two different scenarios of Noise
Noise * Low X-ray Energy (keV) * Contrast is high as the difference between the attenuation of different tissue increases as energy decreases * Less transparent to the body (absorbed, high dose) * As a result, Nb is low * High X-ray Energy * Low Contrast – attenuation to different tissue is similar * Nb is high * Extreme high or low energy results low SNR (Tradeoff)
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Explaing Quantum Efficiency
Quantum Efficiency * In order to be detected, an incident photon needs to interact with the detector. * However, not all the photons will interact with the detector. * Quantum Efficiency is the probability that a single photon incident upon the detector will be detected. * A basic property of the detector.
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Explain Detective Quantum Efficiency
Detective Quantum Efficiency * To better characterize detector performance, detective quantum efficient (DQE) considers the transformation of SNR from a detector’s input to its output.
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Explain Narrow Beam - Monoenergetic
Narrow Beam - Monoenergetic * Monoenergetic - All photons have the same energy level * Assume the slab is homogenous, the measured intensity at the detector becomes I=I0e-µ(delta)x
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Describe the Fundamental Attenuation Law
Fundamental Attenuation Law
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How is the Fundamental Attenuation Law altered for a narrow, monoenergetic beam if the slab is not homogenous?
Narrow Beam - Monoenergetic beam - Heterogen Slab
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Explain the Basic Measurement of a CT Scanner
Basic Measurement of a CT Scanner * The basic measurement of a CT scanner is a line integral of the linear attenuation coefficient
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Explain Hounsfield units (HU)
Hounsfield units (HU) * Linear attenuation coefficients are transformed into Hounsfield units (HU).
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SSY186_Diagnostic Imaging (3 decks)

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