Generation of ventilation/perfusion ratio map in surgical patients by dual-energy CT after xenon inhalation and intraven
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RESEARCH ARTICLE
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Generation of ventilation/perfusion ratio map in surgical patients by dual-energy CT after xenon inhalation and intravenous contrast media Kohei Aoki1, Yotaro Izumi1* , Wataru Watanabe2, Yuji Shimizu2, Hisato Osada2, Norinari Honda2, Toshihide Itoh3 and Mitsuo Nakayama1
Abstract Background: While many studies have evaluated the change in lung volume before and after lung resection and correlated this with pulmonary function test results, there is very little evidence on the changes in ventilation perfusion ratio (V/Q) before versus after lung resection. In the present pilot study, we evaluated if V/Q mapping can be constructed using dual energy CT images. Methods: Thirty-one lung cancer patients planned for pulmonary resection were included in this study. To evaluate ventilation, Xenon-enhanced CT was performed. This was immediately followed by perfusion CT. The two images were registered manually as well as using dedicated softwares, and division between ventilation pixels and perfusion pixels were done to produce the V/Q map. Also, in order to characterize the distribution of the V/Q, the following numerical indices were calculated; mean, median, mode, standard deviation (SD), coefficient of variation (CV), skewness, kurtosis, and fractal dimension (FD). Pulmonary function tests and blood gas parameters were measured using standard institutional procedures. Results: In the whole group, VC, %VC, and FEV1 decreased significantly after resection. FEV1.0% was increased significantly after resection. No significant changes were seen in PaO2, PaCO2, and DLCO/VA before and after resection. The mean, median, mode, SD, skewness, kurtosis and FD of the V/Q did not change significantly before and after resection. A marginal but significant decrease in CV was seen before versus after resection. Conclusions: Overall, it was considered that the V/Q maps could be adequately generated in this study. With further accumulation of data, V/Q map generated by dual energy CT may become one of the potentially useful tools for functional lung imaging. Trial registration: This trial was registered in University Medical Information Network in Japan (UMIN000010023) on 13Feb2013. Keywords: Dual energy CT, Xenon CT, Perfusion CT, Ventilation perfusion ratio
* Correspondence: [email protected] 1 Department of General Thoracic Surgery, Saitama Medical University, Medical Center, 1981 Kamoda, Kawagoeshi, Saitama 350-8550, Japan Full list of author information is available at the end of the article © The Author(s). 2018 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/
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