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- The study aimed to evaluate dual-energy CT's effectiveness in analyzing renal masses and its potential for reducing radiation exposure compared to standard three-phase CT procedures.
- Sixty patients with suspected renal masses underwent a series of dual-energy CT scans, which included various imaging phases and techniques to assess the characteristics of these masses and measure radiation doses.
- Findings indicated that dual-energy CT accurately classified different types of renal masses, but the quality of the virtual unenhanced images was lower than that of traditional unenhanced images, despite achieving significantly reduced radiation doses.
Article Abstract
Objective: The objective of our study was to assess the utility of dual-energy CT for characterizing renal masses using iodine overlay techniques and virtual unenhanced images and to measure the potential radiation dose reduction for two-phase kidney CT compared with a standard three-phase protocol.
Materials And Methods: Sixty patients with suspected renal masses underwent dual-energy CT including true unenhanced, dual-energy corticomedullary, and dual-energy late nephrographic phase imaging. Iodine overlay and virtual unenhanced images were derived from the corticomedullary and late nephrographic phases, respectively. The CT numbers of renal masses were calculated using the iodine overlay images superimposed on the virtual unenhanced images. The overall imaging quality of the true unenhanced images and of the virtual unenhanced images was also evaluated. The effective radiation doses for dual-energy CT and for true unenhanced imaging were calculated.
Results: For overlay or enhancement values on iodine overlay images, 36 simple cysts and 10 hemorrhagic cysts had an attenuation value of less than 20 HU, whereas 21 renal cell carcinomas showed an attenuation value of 20 HU or greater. Eleven angiomyolipomas contained macroscopic fat tissue. All renal masses were accurately classified on the basis of dual-energy CT. The imaging quality of the virtual unenhanced images from the corticomedullary and late nephrographic phases was inferior to the image quality of the true unenhanced images (p < 0.01). The mean effective doses for the three-phase protocol and for true unenhanced images were 12.6 and 2.4 mSv, respectively.
Conclusion: Our results show that dual-energy CT using iodine overlay techniques and virtual unenhanced images may be useful for characterizing renal masses.
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