ArticleSkeletal radiology2018
Diagnostic accuracy of low-dose versus ultra-low-dose CT for lumbar disc disease and facet joint osteoarthritis in patients with low back pain with MRI correlation.
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- Computed Tomography of the Spine : Systematic Review on Acquisition and Reconstruction Techniques to Reduce Radiation Dose.Clinical neuroradiology · 2023Pooled it
- CT in osteoarthritis: its clinical role and recent advances.Skeletal radiology · 2023Review
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- Ultra-low-dose CT versus radiographs for minor spine and pelvis trauma: a Bayesian analysis of accuracy.European radiology · 2021Article
- Reliability Analysis of Deep Learning Algorithms for Reporting of Routine Lumbar MRI Scans.International journal of spine surgery · 2020Article
- Quantifying skeletal burden in fibrous dysplasia using sodium fluoride PET/CT.European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging · 2020Article
- Multi-detector CT imaging: impact of virtual tube current reduction and sparse sampling on detection of vertebral fractures.European radiology · 2019Article
- Ultra-low-dose CT detects synovitis in patients with suspected rheumatoid arthritis.Annals of the rheumatic diseases · 2019Article
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Abstract
objectiveTo compare the image quality, radiation dose, and diagnostic performance between low-dose (LD) and ultra-low-dose (ULD) lumbar-spine (L-spine) CT with iterative reconstruction (IR) for patients with chronic low back pain (LBP).
methodsIn total, 260 patients with chronic LBP who underwent L-spine CT between November 2015 and September 2016 were prospectively enrolled. Of these, 143 underwent LD-CT with IR and 117 underwent ULD-CT with IR. The patients were divided according to their body mass index (BMI) into BMI1 (<22.9 kg/m
resultsULD protocol showed significantly lower SNR for all patients (p < 0.001) except the vertebral bodies and lower qualitative image quality for BMI3 patients (p ≤ 0.033). There was no statistically significant difference between ULD (sensitivity, 95.1-98.1%; specificity, 92.5-98.7%; accuracy, 94.6-98.0%) and LD protocols (sensitivity, 95.6-100%; specificity, 95.5-98.9%; accuracy, 97.4-98.1%), (all p≥0.1) in the BMI1 and BMI2; while dose was 60-68% lower with the ULD protocol. Interobserver agreements were excellent or good with regard to image quality and final diagnoses.
conclusionsFor the BM1 and BMI2 groups, ULD-CT provided an acceptable image quality and exhibited a diagnostic accuracy similar to that of LD-CT. These findings suggest that it is a useful diagnostic tool for patients with chronic LBP who exhibit a BMI of <25 kg/m
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