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Computational tomography perfusion (CTP) is an important functional imaging modality in the evaluation of cerebrovascular diseases, such as stroke and vasospasm. However, the post-processed parametric maps of blood flow tend to be noisy, especially in low-dose CTP, due to the noisy contrast enhancement profile and the oscillatory nature of the results generated by the current computational methods. In this paper, we propose a novel sparsity-base deconvolution method to estimate cerebral blood flow in CTP performed at low-dose. We first built an overcomplete dictionary from high-dose perfusion maps and then performed deconvolution-based hemodynamic parameters estimation on the low-dose CTP data. Our method is validated on a clinical dataset of ischemic patients. The results show that we achieve superior performance than existing methods, and potentially improve the differentiation between normal and ischemic tissue in the brain.
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Fang, R., Chen, T., Sanelli, P.C. (2012). Sparsity-Based Deconvolution of Low-Dose Perfusion CT Using Learned Dictionaries. In: Ayache, N., Delingette, H., Golland, P., Mori, K. (eds) Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention – MICCAI 2012. MICCAI 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7510. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33415-3_34
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