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ArticlePhysics in medicine and biology2018

Quantitative myocardial perfusion from static cardiac and dynamic arterial CT.

Michael Bindschadler, Kelley R Branch, Adam M Alessio

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Michael BindschadlerDepartment of Radiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, United States of America.ORCID 0000-0002-9275-2845
Kelley R BranchDivision of Cardiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, United States of America.
Adam M AlessioDepartment of Radiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, United States of America.ORCID 0000-0003-3371-8580

Funding

Low-dose Myocardial Perfusion Imaging by CTR01HL109327 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI ALESSIO, ADAM M · 2012 to 2017
$2.2M
Quantitative CT Evaluation of Focal Epicardial vs Diffuse Contributions to Coronary Artery DiseaseR56HL109327 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI ALESSIO, ADAM M · 2018 to 2018
$399k
NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL109327NHLBI NIH HHS R56 HL109327
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Abstract

Quantitative myocardial blood flow (MBF) estimation by dynamic contrast enhanced cardiac computed tomography (CT) requires multi-frame acquisition of contrast transit through the blood pool and myocardium to inform the arterial input and tissue response functions. Both the input and the tissue response functions for the entire myocardium are sampled with each acquisition. However, the long breath holds and frequent sampling can result in significant motion artifacts and relatively high radiation dose. To address these limitations, we propose and evaluate a new static cardiac and dynamic arterial (SCDA) quantitative MBF approach where (1) the input function is well sampled using either prediction from pre-scan timing bolus data or measured from dynamic thin slice 'bolus tracking' acquisitions, and (2) the whole-heart tissue response data is limited to one contrast enhanced CT acquisition. A perfusion model uses the dynamic arterial input function to generate a family of possible myocardial contrast enhancement curves corresponding to a range of MBF values. Combined with the timing of the single whole-heart acquisition, these curves generate a lookup table relating myocardial contrast enhancement to quantitative MBF. We tested the SCDA approach in 28 patients that underwent a full dynamic CT protocol both at rest and vasodilator stress conditions. Using measured input function plus single (enhanced CT only) or plus double (enhanced and contrast free baseline CT's) myocardial acquisitions yielded MBF estimates with root mean square (RMS) error of 1.2 ml/min/g and 0.35 ml/min/g, and radiation dose reductions of 90% and 83%, respectively. The prediction of the input function based on timing bolus data and the static acquisition had an RMS error compared to the measured input function of 26.0% which led to MBF estimation errors greater than threefold higher than using the measured input function. SCDA presents a new, simplified approach for quantitative perfusion imaging with an acquisition strategy offering substantial radiation dose and computational complexity savings over dynamic CT.

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Coronary CirculationAgedArteriesCoronary Artery DiseaseFemaleHumansImage Processing, Computer-AssistedMaleMyocardial Perfusion ImagingMyocardiumTomography, X-Ray Computed

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PMID29701608
PMCPMC6154784

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