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Standardized volume rendering for magnetic resonance angiography measurements in the abdominal aorta
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- Persson, Anders (author)
- Östergötlands Läns Landsting,Linköpings universitet,Centrum för medicinsk bildvetenskap och visualisering, CMIV,Medicinsk radiologi,Hälsouniversitetet,Röntgenkliniken i Linköping
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- Brismar, Torkel (author)
- Karolinska Institutet
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- Lundström, Claes, 1973- (author)
- Linköpings universitet,Visuell informationsteknologi och applikationer,Tekniska högskolan,Centrum för medicinsk bildvetenskap och visualisering, CMIV
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- Dahlström, Nils (author)
- Östergötlands Läns Landsting,Linköpings universitet,Centrum för medicinsk bildvetenskap och visualisering, CMIV,Medicinsk radiologi,Hälsouniversitetet,Röntgenkliniken i Linköping
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- Smedby, Örjan (author)
- Östergötlands Läns Landsting,Linköpings universitet,Centrum för medicinsk bildvetenskap och visualisering, CMIV,Medicinsk radiologi,Hälsouniversitetet,Röntgenkliniken i Linköping
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- Othberg, Fredrik (author)
- Linköpings universitet,Centrum för medicinsk bildvetenskap och visualisering,Hälsouniversitetet
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- 2016-08-30
- 2006
- English.
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In: Acta Radiologica. - : SAGE Publications. - 0284-1851 .- 1600-0455. ; 47:2, s. 172-178
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Abstract
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- Purpose: To compare three methods for standardizing volume rendering technique (VRT) protocols by studying aortic diameter measurements in magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) datasets.Material and Methods: Datasets from 20 patients previously examined with gadolinium-enhanced MRA and with digital subtraction angiography (DSA) for abdominal aortic aneurysm were retrospectively evaluated by three independent readers. The MRA datasets were viewed using VRT with three different standardized transfer functions: the percentile method (Pc-VRT), the maximum-likelihood method (ML-VRT), and the partial range histogram method (PRH-VRT). The aortic diameters obtained with these three methods were compared with freely chosen VRT parameters (F-VRT) and with maximum intensity projection (MIP) concerning inter-reader variability and agreement with the reference method DSA.Results: F-VRT parameters and PRH-VRT gave significantly higher diameter values than DSA, whereas Pc-VRT gave significantly lower values than DSA. The highest interobserver variability was found for F-VRT parameters and MIP, and the lowest for Pc-VRT and PRH-VRT. All standardized VRT methods were significantly superior to both MIP and F-VRT in this respect. The agreement with DSA was best for PRH-VRT, which was the only method with a mean error below 1 mm and which also had the narrowest limits of agreement (95% of cases between 2.1 mm below and 3.1 mm above DSA).Conclusion: All the standardized VRT methods compare favorably with MIP and VRT with freely selected parameters as regards interobserver variability. The partial range histogram method, although systematically overestimating vessel diameters, gives results closest to those of DSA.
Keyword
- Abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA); angiography; magnetic resonance angiography (MRA); maximum intensity projection (MIP); volume rendering technique (VRT); user dependence
- TECHNOLOGY
- TEKNIKVETENSKAP
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