Abstract:
Objective To evaluate monoenergetic imaging of dual energy CT in the visualization of metal implants(stainless steel implants).
Methods Two different data(80 and 140 kV)of water phantom which contained metal implants were collected in one-time scanning using dual-energy scanning sequence. Monoenergetic technique which two different imaging at 80 kV and 140 kV were used for subtraction to removing metal artifacts was applied to generate the new imaging. The CT value of water surrounding metal implants were measured and compared.
Results In the three images(80 kV, 140 kV, spectrum image fusion), the latter quality is the highest and the 80 kV scanning images′ quality was the worst. The difference between CT values of 80 kV images(140 kV images) and energy spectrum images along the right direction 0.1, 0.5, 1, 1.5, 2.0, 2.5, 3.0 cm of the metal basically was significant assessed by the SAS9.1 software.
Conclusions Dual energy CT can effectively reduce artifacts of metal implants and will provide high image quality in the area with metal implants.