Effect of radiographic techniques (kVp and mAs) on image quality and patient doses in digital subtraction angiography

NA Gkanatsios, W Huda, KR Peters - Medical physics, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
We investigated how varying the x‐ray tube voltage and image receptor input exposure
affected image quality and patient radiation doses in interventional neuroradiologic imaging …

Radiation dose implications of digital angiographic systems

DM Hynes, R Gershater, EW Edmonds… - American Journal of …, 1984 - Am Roentgen Ray Soc
Digital subtraction angiography (DSA) has been widely accepted and applied. The
concentration of iodine in the vessels of interest is low in intravenous DSA. The resultant …

Patient doses received during digital subtraction angiography

HR Steele, DH Temperton - The British Journal of Radiology, 1993 - birpublications.org
Digital subtraction angiography (DSA) is based on digital image processing with logarithmic
subtraction and edge enhancement. It is used increasingly for the visualization of blood …

Evaluation of a digital subtraction angiography unit.

G Cohen, LK Wagner, EN Rauschkolb - Radiology, 1982 - pubs.rsna.org
The operating characteristics of a digital subtraction angiography unit were evaluated.
Measurements included image intensifier and system linearity, uniformity, quantum and …

A theoretical comparison of x‐ray angiographic image quality using energy‐dependent and conventional subtraction methods

J Tanguay, HK Kim, IA Cunningham - Medical physics, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: X‐ray digital subtraction angiography (DSA) is widely used for vascular imaging.
However, the need to subtract a mask image can result in motion artifacts and compromised …

Relationship between the pixel value in digital subtraction angiography and iodine concentration: study in high iodine concentration with original phantom

K Chida, M Sai, H Saito, K Takase… - The Tohoku Journal of …, 2000 - jstage.jst.go.jp
抄録 Quantitative digital subtraction angiography (DSA) image analysis based on
densitometry is widely accepted and used. For the densitometoric DSA image analysis, it is …

Radiation exposure to interventional radiologists during manual-injection digital subtraction angiography

N Hayashi, T Sakai, M Kitagawa, R Inagaki… - Cardiovascular and …, 1998 - Springer
Purpose: We investigated the relationship between the amount of radiation exposure to the
operator during tableside manual-injection angiographic procedures including digital …

Image noise reduction algorithm for digital subtraction angiography: clinical results

M Söderman, S Holmin, T Andersson, C Palmgren… - Radiology, 2013 - pubs.rsna.org
Purpose To test the hypothesis that an image noise reduction algorithm designed for digital
subtraction angiography (DSA) in interventional neuroradiology enables a reduction in the …

Digital subtraction angiography

WR Brody - IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, 1982 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Digital subtraction angiography (DSA), utilizing computerized x-ray imaging equipment for
image acquisition and subtraction, will provide substantial improvements in blood vessel …

A figure of merit comparison between bremsstrahlung and monoenergetic x-ray sources for angiography

JM Boone, JA Seibert - Journal of X-ray Science and Technology, 1994 - Elsevier
A figure of merit (FOM) has been developed which embodies parameters related to image
quality in the numerator and radiation integral dose to the patient in the denominator. In this …