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Cone-Beam CT with Flat-Panel-Detector Digital Angiography System: Early Experience in Abdominal Interventional Procedures

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We developed a cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) system equipped with a large flat-panel detector. Data obtained by 200° rotation imaging are reconstructed by means of CBCT to generate three-dimensional images. We report the use of CBCT angiography using CBCT in 10 patients with 8 liver malignancies and 2 hypersplenisms during abdominal interventional procedures. CBCT was very useful for interventional radiologists to confirm a perfusion area of the artery catheter wedged on CT by injection of contrast media through the catheter tip, although the image quality was slightly degraded, scoring as 2.60 on average by streak artifacts. CBCT is space-saving because it does not require a CT system with a gantry, and it is also time-saving because it does not require the transfer of patients.

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  1. Department of Radiology, Hyogo College of Medicine, 1-1 Mukogawa-cho, Nishinomiya City, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan, 653-8501

    Shozo Hirota, Norio Nakao, Satoshi Yamamoto, Kaoru Kobayashi, Hiroaki Maeda, Reiichi Ishikura, Koui Miura & Kiyoshi Sakamoto

  2. Research & Development Center, Hitachi Medical Corporation, 2-1, Shintoyofuku, Kashiwa, Chiba, Japan, 277-0804

    Ken Ueda

  3. Central Research Laboratory, Hitachi Limited, 1-280, Higashi-koigakubo, Tokyo, Kokubunji-shi, Japan, 185-8601

    Rika Baba

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Hirota, S., Nakao, N., Yamamoto, S. et al. Cone-Beam CT with Flat-Panel-Detector Digital Angiography System: Early Experience in Abdominal Interventional Procedures. Cardiovasc Intervent Radiol 29, 1034–1038 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00270-005-0287-6

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