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Digital Radiology
•AimAim: To become familiar with the digital : To become familiar with the digital imaging techniques in projection radiography imaging techniques in projection radiography and fluoroscopy.and fluoroscopy.
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Transition from conventional to digital radiology
Digital images can be numerically processed
Digital images can be easily transmitted through networks and archived
Attention should be paid to the potential increase of patient doses due to tendency of : producing more images than neededproducing higher image quality not
necessarily required for the clinical purpose
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What is “dynamic range?”
Wide dose range to the detector, allows a “reasonable” image quality to be obtained
Flat panel detectors (discussed later) have a dynamic range of 104 (from 1 to 10,000) while a screen-film system has approximately 101.5
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Characteristic curve of CR system
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Analogue versus digital
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What is digital radiology?
In conventional radiographic images, spatial position and blackening are analogue values
Digital radiology uses a matrix to represent image A matrix is a square or rectangular area divided into
rows and columns. The smallest element of a matrix is called ”pixel”
Each pixel of the matrix is used to store the individual grey levels of an image, which are represented by positive integer numbers
The location of each pixel in a matrix is encoded by its row and column number (x,y)
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Digital radiology process
Image acquisition Image processing Image display
Importance of viewing conditions Image archiving (PACS) Image retrieving
Importance of time allocated to retrieve images
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Digitizing conventional films
Conventional radiographic images can be converted into digital information by a “digitizer”, and electronically stored
Such a conversion also allows some numerical post-processing
Such a technique cannot be considered as a “ digital radiology” technique.
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Different number of pixels per image: original was 3732 x 3062 pixels x 256 grey levels (21.8
Mbytes). Here, resized at 1024 x 840 (1.6 MB).
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Scintillation-based DR
Gadolinium Oxy-sulphide Detector
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Digital Radiography Systems
Phosphor photostimulable plates (PSP).
– So called CR (computed radiography)
– Conventional X-ray systems can be used
Direct digital registration of image at the
detector (flat panel detectors).
– Direct conversion (selenium)
– Indirect conversion (scintillation)
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Computed Radiography (CR)
CR utilises the principle of photostimulable phosphor luminescence
Image plate made of a suitable phosphor material are exposed to X-rays in the same
way as a conventional screen-film combination
The CR image plate retains most of the absorbed X-ray energy, in energy traps,
forming a latent image
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A scanning laser is then used to release the stored energy producing luminescence.
The emitted light, which is linearly proportional to the locally incident X-ray intensity is detected by
a photo multiplier/ADC configuration and converted to a digital image
The resultant images have a digital specification of 2,370 x 1,770 pixels (for mammograms) with
1,024 grey levels (10 bits) and a pixel size of 100 mm corresponding to a 24 x 18 cm field size
Computed Radiography (CR)
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The principle of PSP
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PSP digitizer Casette and PSP
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DR Detecting Systems
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CCD Based Detection System
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Digital detector
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Amorphous Selenium Detector
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Digital fluoroscopyDigital fluoroscopic systems are mainly based
on the use of image intensifiers (I.I.)
In conventional systems the output screen of the I.I. is projected onto a video camera
system or a CCD camera
The output signals of the camera are converted into a digital image matrix (1024 x
1024 pixel in most systems) .
Some new systems start to use flat panel detectors instead of image intensifier.
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Tendency to increase dose?
For digital detectors, higher doses result in a better image quality (less “noisy” images)
When increasing dose, the signal to noise ratio is improved
Thus, a certain tendency to increase doses could happen specially in those
examinations where automatic exposure control is not usually available .
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The digital radiology department
In addition to the X-ray rooms and imaging systems, a digital radiology department has
two other components:
A Radiology Information management System (RIS) that can be a subset of the hospital
information system (HIS)
A Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS).
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Data management
•We write a report!•Link both PACS and
RIS.
•Report compares Orders on RIS with
Images on PACS.
•Report highlights RIS orders with No
images!
PACS RIS
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DICOM
•DICOM (Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine) is the industry standard for transferal of radiological images and other medical information
between different systems
•All recently introduced medical products should therefore be in compliance with the DICOM standard
•However, due to the rapid development of new
technologies and methods, the compatibility and connectivity of systems from different vendors is still
a great challenge
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DICOM format images:
Radiology images in DICOM format contain in addition to the image, a header, with an
important set of additional data related with:
the X ray system used to obtain the imagethe identification of the patientthe radiographic technique, dosimetric details,
etc.