抄録
We measured the contrast-to-noise ratio (CNR) and evaluated low-contrast images and streak artifacts to optimize abdominal C-arm CT imaging, and we investigated the view number, acquisition matrix, and pixel depth. To measure CNR, we filled 0.125–1.0-inch cavities in an American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) CT performance phantom with a sodium chloride solution. Five radiological technologists visually evaluated the noise, signal conspicuity at low-and high-signal density, and the overall image quality using paired comparisons based on Thurstone’s law. In a given acquisition matrix, the total view number had the greatest effect on the image noise, artifacts, and signal detectability on C-arm CT images. For a given incident dose per view on the flat-panel detector (FPD), fewer images with noise and streak artifacts resulted when a larger view number was selected.
