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The British Journal of Radiology, Vol 73, Issue 873 956-962, Copyright © 2000 by British Institute of Radiology

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Impact of motion artefact on the measurement of coronary calcium score

SJ Brown, MP Hayball and RA Coulden
Department of Radiology, Papworth Hospital NHS Trust, Cambridge, UK.

Reports have shown that total coronary calcium (CC) measured by electron beam CT (EBCT) correlates well with atheroma extent, and this in turn is a reliable indicator of risk for future ischaemic events. Although total CC may be measured using a conventional CT scanner, image quality is degraded by cardiac motion artefact. Errors in CC measurement owing to slice misregistration between adjacent breath-holds affect both conventional CT and EBCT. The latest generation conventional CT scanners have acquisition times of 500 ms or shorter, and, when combined with ECG triggering, quantitative CC measurement without reliance upon EBCT becomes a real possibility. We investigated the effect of motion on the measured calcium score using a moving phantom. Our results show that use of ECG triggering with conventional CT improves reproducibility of Agatston calcium score measurement. Increasing motion time during image acquisition results in an apparent increase in the Agatston CC score. Alternative measures of the amount of CC may be less susceptible to motion-induced bias, but have a similar reproducibility.


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