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디지털 방사선영상 시스템에서 산란선이 영상 품질에 미치는 영향

A Study of Scattered Radiation Effect on Digital Radiography Imaging System

  • 백철하 (동서대학교 방사선학과)
  • Baek, Cheol-Ha (Department of Radiological Science, Dongseo University)
  • 투고 : 2017.02.15
  • 심사 : 2017.03.15
  • 발행 : 2017.03.31

초록

디지털 방사선영상 시스템에서 산란선은 피검사체와 엑스선의 반응에 의해 발생하는 근원적인 현상이다. 방사선 투사영상은 일차선에 의해 형성되는 감쇠정보를 영상화 하므로 산란선은 투사영상에서 노이즈로써 작용한다. 본 연구에서는 다양한 검사조건에서 발생하는 산란선을 빔 저지체(beam stopper)를 이용하여 정량화하고 동시에 반 산란 격자의 효과를 확인하였다. 또한 산란선이 영상의 품질에 미치는 영향을 확인하기 위해 산란선에 의해 저하되는 대조도 대 잡음비를 측정하였다. 본 연구를 통해 산란선은 피검사체의 두께 및 공기층(air gap)에 지배적인 경향을 가짐을 확인하였다. 또한 산란선은 영상의 대조도를 현격히 저하시킴을 정량적으로 측정하였다. 산란선을 저감하기 위해 격자를 장착함으로써 상당량의 산란선을 저감할 수 있었으나 여전히 두꺼운 피검사체에 대해 많은 양의 산란선이 남아 있음을 확인하였다. 본 연구에서는 산란선을 정량화 하는 방법론을 제시하였으며, 향후 시스템의 최적화에 중요한 역할을 할 수 있을 것으로 기대된다.

Scattered radiation is inherent phenomenon of x-ray, which occurs to the subject (or patient). Therefore it cannot be avoidable but also interacts as serious noise factor because the only meaningful information on x-ray radiography is primary x-ray photons. The purpose of this study was to quantify scattered radiation for various shooting parameters and to verify the effect of anti-scatter grid. We employed beam stopper method to characterize scatter to primary ratio. To evaluate effect on the projection images calculated contrast to noise ratio of given shooting parameters. From the experiments, we identified the scattered radiation increases in thicker patient and smaller air gap. Moreover, scattered radiation degraded contrast to noise ratio of the projection images. We find out that the anti-scatter grid rejected scattered radiation effectively, however there were not fewer than 100% of scatter to primary ratio in some shooting parameters. The results demonstrate that the scattered radiation was serious problem of medical x-ray system, we confirmed that the scattered radiation was not considerable factor of dig ital radiog raphy.

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