A retrospective comparison of organ dose and effective dose in percutaneous vertebroplasty performed under CT guidance or using a fixed C-arm with a flat-panel detector

Joël Greffier (1, 2) , Aymeric Hamard (1, 2) , Laure Berny (1, 2) , Fehmi Snene (1, 2) , Romain Perolat (1, 2) , Ahmed Larbi , Pierre Viala (1, 2) , Djamel Dabli (1, 2) , Jean-Paul Beregi (1, 2, 3)

1 CHU Nîmes - Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nîmes
2 EA 2992 - Caractéristiques féminines des dysfonctions des interfaces cardio-vasculaires
3 IMAGINE - Initial MAnagement and prevention of acute orGan failures IN critically ill patiEnts

Purpose: To compare the organ-dose and effective-dose (E) delivered to the patient during percutaneous vertebroplasty (PVP) of one thoracic or lumbar vertebra performed under CT guidance or using a fixed C-arm.Methods: Consecutive adult patients undergoing PVP of one vertebra under CT-guidance, with optimized protocol and training of physicians, or using a fixed C-arm were retrospectively included from January 2016 to June 2017. Organ-doses were computed on 16 organs using CT Expo 2.4 software for the CT procedures and PCXMC 2.0 for the fixed C-arm procedures. E was also computed with both software. Dosimetric values per anatomic locations for all procedures were compared using the paired Mann-Whitney-Wilcoxon test.Results: In total, 73 patients were analysed (27 men and 46 women, mean age 78 ± 10 years) among whom 35 (48%) underwent PVP under CT guidance and 38 (52%) PVP using a fixed C-arm. The median E was 11.31 [6.54; 15.82] mSv for all PVPs performed under CT guidance and 5.58 [3.33; 8.71] mSv for fixed C-arm and the differences was significant (p<0.001). For lumbar PVP, the organ doses of stomach, liver and colon were significantly higher with CT-scan than with the fixed C-arm: 97% (p=0.02); 21% (p=0.099) and 375% (p=0.002), respectively. For thoracic PVP, the lung organ dose was significantly higher with CT-scan than with the fixed C-arm (127%; p<0.001) and the oesophagus organ doses were not significantly different (p = 0.626).Conclusion: This study showed that the E and the organ dose on directly exposed organs were both higher for PVP performed under CT-guidance than with the fixed C-arm.

Mots clés: Effective dose; Interventional radiology; Multidetector computed tomography; Organ dose; Vertebroplasty

Domaines: Imagerie; Médecine nucléaire; Médecine humaine et pathologie

Joël Greffier, Aymeric Hamard, Laure Berny, Fehmi Snene, Romain Perolat, et al.. A retrospective comparison of organ dose and effective dose in percutaneous vertebroplasty performed under CT guidance or using a fixed C-arm with a flat-panel detector. Physica Medica, 2021, 88, pp.235-241. ⟨10.1016/j.ejmp.2021.07.002⟩. ⟨hal-03631392⟩