Purpose: The aim of this study was to evaluate artifacts in the skull base region of head computed tomography (CT) images with various tilt angles relative to the orbitomeatal line.
Methods: CT images of a head phantom acquired by helical and non-helical scanning with the tilt angles set from 0 to 20 degrees in 5-degree increments were evaluated in this study. Regions of interest (ROIs) were set at the cerebellum, temporal lobe, frontal lobe, and basal ganglia in the phantom images. Artifacts were evaluated by the coefficient of variation (CV) of the mean CT value between ROIs and the location parameter (β) of the Gumbel method.
Results: The CV and β values increased with increasing tilt angle for both helical and nonhelical images in the frontal lobes, but both decreased in the cerebellar region. In the temporal lobe and basal ganglia, there was no trend of change with tilt angle.
Conclusion: Increasing the tilt angle relative to the OM line increased artifacts at the frontal lobes and decreased artifacts at the cerebellar region.
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