The effect of iterative model reconstruction on coronary artery calcium quantification

Szilveszter, Bálint and Elzomor, H. and Károlyi, Mihály and Kolossváry, Márton József and Raaijmakers, R. and Benke, Kálmán and Celeng, Csilla and Bartykowszki, Andrea and Bagyura, Zsolt and Lux, Árpád and Merkely, Béla Péter and Maurovich-Horvat, Pál (2016) The effect of iterative model reconstruction on coronary artery calcium quantification. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CARDIOVASCULAR IMAGING, 32 (1). pp. 153-160. ISSN 1569-5794

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Abstract

Coronary artery calcium (CAC) scoring with computed tomography (CT) is an established tool for quantifying calcified atherosclerotic plaque burden. Despite the widespread use of novel image reconstruction techniques in CT, the effect of iterative model reconstruction on CAC score remains unclear. We sought to assess the impact of iterative model based reconstruction (IMR) on coronary artery calcium quantification as compared to the standard filtered back projection (FBP) algorithm and hybrid iterative reconstruction (HIR). In addition, we aimed to simulate the impact of iterative reconstruction techniques on calcium scoring based risk stratification of a larger asymptomatic population. We studied 63 individuals who underwent CAC scoring. Images were reconstructed with FBP, HIR and IMR and CAC scores were measured. We estimated the cardiovascular risk reclassification rate of IMR versus HIR and FBP in a larger asymptomatic population (n = 504). The median CAC scores were 147.7 (IQR 9.6-582.9), 107.0 (IQR 5.9-526.6) and 115.1 (IQR 9.3-508.3) for FBP, HIR and IMR, respectively. The HIR and IMR resulted in lower CAC scores as compared to FBP (both p < 0.001), however there was no difference between HIR and IMR (p = 0.855). The CAC score decreased by 7.2 % in HIR and 7.3 % in IMR as compared to FBP, resulting in a risk reclassification rate of 2.4 % for both HIR and IMR. The utilization of IMR for CAC scoring reduces the measured calcium quantity. However, the CAC score based risk stratification demonstrated modest reclassification in IMR and HIR versus FBP.

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