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- the invention relates to an ensemble of at least two X-ray contrast media.
- the invention also relates to an X-ray imaging method in which the ensemble mentioned is used at least two X-ray contrast media.
- the invention also relates to an image reconstruction device.
- the invention also relates to an X-ray imaging system.
- the imaging methods are often based on the acquisition of X-rays, so-called projection measurement data being generated.
- projection measurement data can be acquired with the aid of a computed tomography system (CT system).
- CT system computed tomography system
- contrast media are often used which are injected into the patient in order to increase the contrast of the image recording and thus to facilitate a diagnosis.
- contrast agents is the representation of vessels using X-ray methods. X-ray procedures can be carried out with conventional systems, C-arm systems, angiography systems or CT systems. Conventionally, iodine is used as an X-ray contrast medium in such imaging.
- chemo-embolization to treat liver tumors.
- the remaining local blood flow in the tumor is displayed, also called perfusion.
- the extent of the local blood flow to the tumor is a measure of the success of this procedure. That is, the lower the blood flow in the tumor area, the more effective the treatment.
- chemo-embolization the administration of a chemotherapeutic agent is combined with a targeted clogging of arteries in the liver using small particles such as oily droplets.
- the embolization material such as lipiodol, itself includes a contrast medium.
- the contrast agent remains with the embolization agent in the liver area. If, in addition to showing the local blood flow after the embolization, a second contrast agent is given, the areas acted upon by the two contrast agents must be able to be shown separately from one another. If the iodine-based lipiodol is now used for embolization and iodine as a second contrast agent, separation is not possible, or only possible with difficulty, since the aforementioned contrast agents behave in the same way with regard to their absorption or their absorption spectrum.
- One possibility of separating the two contrast media anyway is to use so-called subtraction techniques, in which a prior CT scan of a patient is generated after chemo-embolization, but before the intravenous contrast agent is administered, and from a CT scan, which takes place after administration of the intravenous contrast agent is subtracted, so that only the contrast agent administered intravenously remains visible in the pictorial representation.
- subtraction techniques require Subtraction an exact registration of the image data in the recordings to compensate for patient movements.
- the radiation dose for the patient is increased.
- a contrast medium that is not based on iodine can also be used as a second contrast medium.
- gadolinium is conventionally available. Gadolium has a K-edge of about 50 keV and behaves spectrally very similar to iodine, the K-edge of which is 33 keV, so that a two-material breakdown based on dual-energy imaging into an iodine image and a Gadoli nium image is very imprecise and is associated with very strong noise and very poor material separation, so that it cannot be used in clinical practice.
- An improved separation of the image areas represented by the two contrast agents iodine and gadolinium can be achieved, for example, through CT images with more than two energies, for example through the use of photon-counting detectors.
- CT images with more than two energies for example through the use of photon-counting detectors.
- the simultaneous use of two contrast media is also used for the simultaneous display of the arterial phase and the venous or portal venous phase of a liver CT examination in separate images, which are calculated on the basis of CT data from a single CT image.
- two different contrast media are injected with a time delay before the CT acquisition. It will a first contrast agent is injected so early that it has already reached the venous or portal venous phase at the time of the CT scan, and a second contrast agent is injected accordingly later so that it images the arterial phase at the time of the CT scan. In this application, too, it is necessary to be able to clearly distinguish the two contrast media from one another in the image recording.
- the two conventionally available contrast media iodine and gadolinium
- iodine and gadolinium are so similar in terms of their spectral absorption behavior that they cannot be easily separated from one another with dual-energy image recordings.
- three decompositions of material are possible with the aid of CT systems with photon-counting detectors, the problems of increased noise and a necessary increase in the radiation dose for the patient also arise.
- Simultaneous display with two contrast media is also necessary when determining lung perfusion while displaying lung ventilation at the same time.
- the local blood flow in the lung parenchyma is imaged as a measure of the lung perfusion by intravenous administration of a first contrast agent and, at the same time, the lung ventilation is visualized by inhaling a second contrast agent.
- a contrast medium to show the local blood flow to the lung parenchyma
- xenon is used as a contrast medium to show the lung ventilation.
- xenon behaves very similarly to iodine with regard to its spectral absorption behavior, so that a dual-energy CT image recording or a two-material separation into an iodine image and a xenon image based thereon does not provide any useful results.
- the ensemble of X-ray contrast media has a first X-ray contrast media and a second X-ray contrast media.
- the second X-ray contrast agent has an X-ray absorption whose change between at least two different X-ray photon energies differs significantly from the change in the X-ray absorption of the first contrast agent between the at least two different X-ray photon energies. It should be said that the absorption of X-ray contrast mean can change depending on the energy of the X-ray photons.
- Conventional contrast media, such as iodine and gadolium show a very similar change behavior, so that they cannot be shown separately from one another.
- two X-ray contrast media are to be combined with one another for a simultaneous image display, which show a different change behavior of their absorption depending on the energy of the irradiated X-ray photons and therefore with a multi-energy CT image recording, in particular with a dual-energy CT image recording, are distinguishable from one another.
- “significant” is to be understood as meaning that the change in the absorption of the second X-ray contrast agent is less than half the change in the first X-ray contrast agent for the selected different X-ray photon energies.
- the spectrally different behavior of the second contrast agent according to the invention can advantageously be used to display areas flooded by the second contrast agent separately from other image areas that are acted upon by the first contrast agent. This means that the two contrast agents can be clearly distinguished from one another in a common image recording. As a result, the accuracy of a simultaneous display of two different functional areas or two different functional processes in an examination area is improved compared to conventionally used contrast media.
- an ensemble according to the invention is initially selected from at least two x-ray contrast media. Furthermore, raw X-ray data are recorded from an area of an examination subject through which a first X-ray contrast medium floods and from an area of the examination object through which a second X-ray contrast medium flows using a multi-energy recording method, preferably a dual-energy recording method.
- a dual-energy CT image recording is associated with a lower noise effect than CT image recordings with a higher number of different energies or a higher number of simultaneous recordings with a different X-ray spectrum. Then he follows a material breakdown on the basis of the raw X-ray data with regard to the two X-ray contrast media.
- the X-ray imaging method according to the invention can be carried out as a computer-implemented method on the basis of the recorded data.
- material decomposition which is known in principle, it is assumed that an X-ray attenuation value measured by means of an X-ray image recording device can be described as a linear combination of X-ray attenuation values of so-called base materials with regard to said X-ray quantum energy distribution or X-ray photon energy.
- Measured x-ray attenuation values result from the at least two raw data sets or image data sets reconstructed therefrom for different x-ray quantum energy distributions.
- the material or base material are the two X-ray contrast media.
- the X-ray attenuation of a base material as a function of the energy of the X-ray radiation is basically known or can be determined by previous measurements on phantoms and stored in the form of tables for retrieval as part of the material decomposition.
- the result of the material breakdown is a spatial density distribution of the at least two mate rials, ie the X-ray contrast media according to the invention, from which the base material proportions or the base material combination can be determined for each volume element in the patient's body region to be imaged.
- the material breakdown can either directly affect the raw data or be based on reconstructed image data.
- at least two image data sets are generated on the basis of spectrally decomposed data, be it raw data or image data:
- the at least two image data sets comprise a first image data set, which represents a first image area acted upon by the first contrast agent, and a second image data set, which represents a second image area which is preferably complementary to the first image area and which is acted upon by the second X-ray contrast medium.
- the two image data sets include a first image data set, which is a represents a first image area acted upon by the first contrast agent, and a second image data set which represents a second image area acted upon by the second contrast agent.
- areas acted upon by the first and second X-ray contrast media can be illustrated together in one image, for example by superimposing the two image data sets, the relative position of the different functional areas and the spatial separation or interfaces between these different areas are clearly visible.
- a separate representation of the first and the second can also be used for the separate illustration of the different x-ray contrast agents or the structures or physical functions illustrated by them Image data set take place in two separate images.
- the X-ray imaging method according to the invention enables a more precise simultaneous representation with two contrast media used at the same time.
- the image reconstruction device has a determination unit for determining at least two different X-ray photon energies.
- the at least two different X-ray photon energies are selected such that at these energies a first contrast agent differs significantly from a second contrast agent with regard to the change in X-ray absorption between the at least two different X-ray photon energies.
- the choice of energy values can, for example, be based on stored energy-dependent absorption values chosen contrast agent.
- the choice of energy values can be taken into account in the context of a multi-energy recording process when choosing the energies or mean energy values of the X-ray sources used for imaging. If counting detectors are used to detect the X-ray radiation, energy thresholds or intervals can be selected so that the energy values mentioned are included.
- Part of the image reconstruction device is a raw data receiving unit for receiving raw x-ray data from an area of an examination subject flooded by the first contrast agent and from an area of the examination object flooded by the second contrast agent with the aid of a multi-energy recording method, preferably a dual Energy imaging procedure.
- the image reconstruction device also comprises a decomposition unit for performing a material decomposition on the basis of the raw x-ray data with regard to the two x-ray contrast media.
- the image reconstruction device also comprises a reconstruction unit for reconstructing at least two image data sets on the basis of the material breakdown.
- the image data sets include a first image data set, which represents a first image area acted upon by the first x-ray contrast agent, and a second image data set, which represents a second image area acted upon by the second x-ray contrast agent.
- the image reconstruction device shares the advantages of the X-ray imaging method according to the invention.
- the X-ray imaging system according to the invention has an image reconstruction device according to the invention.
- the X-ray imaging system according to the invention can preferably comprise a CT system.
- the essential components of the image reconstruction device according to the invention can for the most part be in the form be formed by software components. This applies in particular to the decomposition unit and the reconstruction unit of the image reconstruction device according to the invention. In principle, however, these components can also be implemented in part, in particular when particularly fast calculations are concerned, in the form of software-supported hardware, for example FPGAs or the like.
- the required interfaces for example when it is only a matter of transferring data from other software components, can be designed as software interfaces. However, they can also be designed as hardware-based interfaces that are controlled by suitable software.
- a largely software-based implementation has the advantage that medical X-ray imaging systems or image reconstruction devices that have already been used can easily be retrofitted by a software update in order to work in the manner according to the invention.
- the object is also achieved by a corresponding computer program product with a computer program that can be loaded directly into a memory device of an X-ray imaging system, with program sections to execute the software-realizable steps of the X-ray imaging method according to the invention when the program is in the X-ray imaging system is performed.
- Such a computer program product can in addition to the computer program if necessary additional components such.
- a computer-readable medium for example a memory stick, a hard drive or some other transportable or permanently installed data carrier, on which the program sections of the computer program that can be read and executed by a computer unit can be used are.
- the Computer unit can, for. B. for this purpose have one or more cooperating microprocessors or the like.
- the computer unit can, for example, be part of a terminal or a control device of an X-ray imaging system, such as a CT system, but it can also be part of a remotely positioned server system within a data transmission network that communicates with the X-ray imaging system.
- the X-ray absorption of the first contrast agent is significantly different for the at least two X-ray photon energies and the X-ray absorption of the second contrast agent is not significantly different for the at least two X-ray photon energies.
- the two X-ray contrast media according to the invention advantageously differ from one another with regard to their absorption behavior as a function of the photon energy. As already explained, this can be different Absorption behavior can be used to distinguish the two X-ray contrast media from one another during imaging.
- the X-ray absorption of the second X-ray contrast medium is particularly preferably similar to the spectrum of the X-ray absorption of water or soft tissue.
- the second contrast medium should have a stronger absorption than is the case with water or soft tissue.
- the similarity should therefore not be related to absolute values of the absorption, but to the change in the absorption as a function of the X-ray photon energy. This is because water or soft tissue has a behavior that is independent of the photon energy in an energy range relevant for CT imaging and can therefore be easily separated from conventional contrast media such as iodine or gadolinium.
- the first contrast agent has one of the following materials:
- the second contrast agent is one of the following materials:
- the materials selected for the second contrast agent all advantageously have a water-like absorption behavior. For this reason, partial areas of an examination area exposed to or flooded with the second contrast agent can easily be separated or shown separately from iodine-containing or gadolinium-containing areas.
- this has a multi-energy imaging method, preferably a dual-energy imaging method, in which at least two different X-ray tube voltages, at which the change in absorption of the first and the second Contrast agent is significantly different.
- At least two data sets of x-ray recordings with the at least two different x-ray tube voltages are recorded for the acquisition of a first raw data set and at least one second raw data set.
- the material is then broken down on the basis of the at least two raw data records.
- X-rays with different X-ray spectra are generated with the help of different X-ray tube voltages. These are used to generate at least two raw data sets which are used to separate different contrast media during imaging.
- At least two x-ray recordings are carried out with the at least two different x-ray tube voltages.
- raw x-ray data that were recorded with the help of a photon-counting detector in an energy-resolved manner are recorded, the energy thresholds of the photon-counting detector being set in such a way that the change in the absorption of the first contrast is reflected in the change in the The absorption of the second contrast means is significantly different.
- the material is broken down on the basis of the energy-resolved raw data.
- only the irradiation of an examination area with only a single X-ray tube is advantageously required, since the spectral separation of the X-ray radiation takes place in the detector.
- the X-ray imaging method according to the invention preferably comprises one of the following CT imaging methods:
- the above-mentioned examinations can advantageously be carried out using the X-ray imaging method according to the invention with a low radiation dose and improved image quality compared to the conventional procedure.
- FIG. 1 shows a diagram which illustrates absorption values of the contrast by means of iodine and the material tungsten as a function of the tube voltage of an X-ray device
- FIG. 2 shows a diagram which shows the absorption properties of the contrast agents iodine and tungsten as well as calcium and water as a function of the energy of the X-ray photons
- FIG. 3 shows a flow chart which illustrates an X-ray imaging method according to a first exemplary embodiment of the invention
- FIG. 4 shows a schematic representation of an image reconstruction device according to an exemplary embodiment of the invention
- FIG. 5 shows a schematic representation of a CT system according to an exemplary embodiment of the invention.
- 1 shows a diagram 10 which illustrates absorption values I s of the contrast agent iodine I and the material tungsten W as a function of the tube voltage V of an X-ray device. While the X-ray absorption of iodine I decreases with increasing energy, the X-ray absorption of tungsten W changes only slightly with the energy.
- FIG. 2 shows a diagram 20 which shows the absorption properties of the contrast agents iodine I and tungsten W and calcium Ca and water HO as a function of the energy E PH of the X-ray photons.
- the mass absorption coefficient k is a function of the energy E PH of the X-ray photons.
- the absorption of the contrast agent iodine I and the bone material calcium Ca decreases sharply in the ranges from 40 to 80 keV with increasing photon energy E PH. It should be noted that the absorption is shown logarithmically. In contrast, tungsten W behaves more like water HO.
- the absorption for a first photon energy E (1) which is approximately 45 keV
- the absorption for a second photon energy E (2) which is approximately 80 keV. Due to the very different behavior of tungsten W compared to calcium Ca, image areas which are exposed to tungsten W can easily be different from areas in which calcium Ca predominates, can be separated or represented separately.
- FIG. 3 shows a flow diagram 300 which illustrates an X-ray imaging method according to an exemplary embodiment of the invention.
- an imaging of a chemo-embolization of a tumor is to take place in the liver.
- step 3.1 an ensemble of two contrast agents, namely the iodine-based lipiodol and an intravenous contrast agent based on the element tungsten, is selected.
- step 3.II raw x-ray data RD from an area exposed to lipiodol, i.e. the edge area of the tumor and an area flooded with intravenous contrast medium, are recorded with the aid of a dual-energy recording method.
- raw x-ray data recorded with x-ray sources with two different energy values E (1) and E (2) are recorded.
- the energy values are selected in such a way that the absorption behavior of the intravenous contrast agent, in this exemplary embodiment a contrast agent based on the material tungsten, is the same for both energy values.
- the image recording process can be implemented, for example, by using two spatially separated detectors, with a filter being introduced into the beam path in front of one of the two detectors, which filters out part of the spectrum of the X-rays. So there are two raw data sets recorded with a different X-ray photon spectrum.
- step 3.III two image data sets BDI, BD2 are reconstructed on the basis of the two raw data sets.
- the reconstruction takes place on the basis of a material breakdown according to the two contrast media used.
- a first image data set BDI represents a first image area acted upon by the Lipiodol and a second image data set BD2 represents a second image area acted upon by the tungsten-based contrast agent. Both image areas are easy to display in a common image due to the very different properties of the contrast agents used distinguishable from each other.
- a reconstruction device 40 is shown in FIG.
- the reconstruction device 40 has a determination unit 41.
- the determination unit 41 receives information with regard to the contrast media I, K2 to be used and determines values E (1), E (2) of two different X-ray photon energies at which a selected contrast agent K2 behaves like water, ie the absorption is for both Energy values the same.
- the image areas to be separated from the contrast agent K2 and exposed to iodine I have a dependency of the absorption on the X-ray photon energy and, due to the different absorption behavior in the determined energy values E (1), E (2), can therefore easily be derived from the differentiate between selected contrast media K2.
- the energy values can be selected, for example, on the basis of stored energy-dependent absorption values of the selected contrast agent K2.
- the choice of the energy values E (1), E (2) can be taken into account in the context of a multi-energy recording process when choosing the energy of the X-ray sources used for imaging. If counting detectors are used to detect the X-ray radiation, energy thresholds or intervals can be selected so that the energy values mentioned are included.
- the reconstruction device 40 also has a raw data receiving unit 42 for receiving raw x-ray data RD.
- the raw data RD were obtained from at least one of the contrast media I, K2 with the aid of a dual-energy CT method partially flooded area of an examination subject acquired.
- the raw data RD are forwarded to a decomposition unit 43, which performs a material decomposition on the basis of the raw x-ray data RD with regard to the two contrast agents I, K2.
- the components MAI, MA2 assigned to the individual absorption spectra of the different materials are transmitted to a reconstruction unit 44 which reconstructs at least two image data sets BDI, BD2 on the basis of the different components MAI, MA2.
- a first image data set BDI illustrates a first image area exposed to the tungsten-based contrast agent K2 and a second image data set BD2 illustrates a second image area which is complementary to the first image area and in which structures contrasted with iodine predominate.
- the image data BDI, BD2 are finally output via an output interface 45.
- FIG. 5 illustrates an x-ray imaging system, in this case a CT system 50, according to an exemplary embodiment of the invention.
- the CT system 50 which is designed as a dual-energy CT system, essentially consists of a conventional scanner 9 in which a projection measurement data acquisition unit 5 with two detectors 16a, 16b and two detectors 16a is attached to a gantry 11 , 16b opposite X-ray sources 15a, 15b around a measuring space 12.
- a patient support device 3 or a patient table 3 In front of the scanner 9 there is a patient support device 3 or a patient table 3, the upper part 2 of which can be moved to the scanner 9 with a patient 0 thereon in order to rela tively the patient 0 through the measuring room 12 to the detector system 16a, 16b move.
- the scanner 9 and the patient table 3 are controlled by a control device 31, from which acquisition control signals AS come via a customary control interface 34 in order to control the entire system in the conventional manner according to predetermined measurement protocols.
- a control device 31 from which acquisition control signals AS come via a customary control interface 34 in order to control the entire system in the conventional manner according to predetermined measurement protocols.
- the detectors 16a, 16b always run parallel to the X-ray sources 15a, 15b in order to record projection measurement data PMD1, PMD2, which are then used to reconstruct volume and / or slice image data.
- a sequential measurement method can also be carried out in which a fixed position is approached in the z-direction and the required projection measurement data PMD1, PMD2 are then recorded during one revolution, a partial revolution or several revolutions at the relevant z position in order to achieve a To reconstruct sectional image at this z-position or to reconstruct image data from the projection measurement data of several z-positions.
- the method according to the invention can in principle also be used on other CT systems, for example with only one X-ray source or a detector that forms a complete ring.
- the method according to the invention can also be applied to a system with a stationary patient table and a gantry that is moved in the z-direction (a so-called sliding gantry).
- the projection measurement data PMD1, PMD2 (also referred to below as raw data) acquired by the detectors 16a, 16b are transferred to the control device 31 via a raw data interface 33. These raw data are then further processed, possibly after suitable preprocessing, in a reconstruction device 40, which in this embodiment is implemented in the control device 31 in the form of software on a processor.
- This reconstruction device 40 reconstructs two image data sets BDI, BD2 on the basis of the raw data PMD1, PMD2, of which a first image data set BDI from a first X-ray contrast agent according to the invention, such as a tungsten-based contrast agent, illustrates exposed structures and a second image data set BD2 from a second according to the invention Contrast agents, such as iodine, show clearly visible areas of the image.
- a first image data set BDI from a first X-ray contrast agent according to the invention such as a tungsten-based contrast agent
- Contrast agents such as iodine
- the image data BDI, BD2 generated by the reconstruction device 40 are then stored in a memory 32 of the control device 31 and / or output in the usual manner on the screen of the control device 31.
- RIS radiological information system
- the data can be further processed in any way and then saved or output.
- a contrast agent injection device 35 is also shown in FIG. 5, with which the two contrast agents according to the invention are injected into the patient 0 in advance, i.e. before the start of the CT imaging method.
- the areas through which the contrast media flows can then be captured using the computed tomography system 50 using the X-ray imaging method according to the invention.
- the components of the reconstruction device 40 can be implemented predominantly or completely in the form of software elements on a suitable processor.
- the interfaces between these components can also be designed purely in terms of software. All that is required is that there are access options to suitable storage areas in which the data can be stored temporarily and called up and updated at any time.
- the methods and devices described above are merely preferred exemplary embodiments of the invention and that the invention can be varied by a person skilled in the art without departing from the scope of the invention, insofar as it is specified by the claims is.
- the use of the indefinite article “a” or “an” does not exclude the possibility that the features in question may also be present more than once.
- the term “unit” does not exclude the fact that it consists of several components which, if necessary, can also be spatially distributed.
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