title: Quality assessment of magnetic resonance stereotactic localization for Gamma Knife radiosurgery.
abstract: Artifacts in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) may lead to anatomical distortion and inaccurate stereotactic coordinates. A special phantom for MRI and computed tomography (CT) was built to test the quality and precision of the two neuroradiological procedures. The phantom is fixed with the Leksell frame, and it has 15 orthogonal markers visible by CT and MRI techniques. The coordinates of the markers were calculated first on the CT scans and then on MR images. Two groups of different distortions were analysed: artifacts depending on the frame and its components and artifacts depending on the MR unit and image characteristics. A good target-coordinate correlation was found between CT and MRI in the axial plane, while in the coronal plane there was always a small error. This error is not constant, but changes from test to test, consequently it is hard to reform the image.
authors.affiliation: University Hospital of Verona, Italy.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Piovan
authors.forename: P G
authors.initials: PG
authors.lastname: Zampieri
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Alessandrini
authors.forename: M A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Gerosa
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Nicolato
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Pasoli
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Foroni
authors.forename: M G
authors.initials: MG
authors.lastname: Giri
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bricolo
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Benati
mesh_terms: D016477:Artifacts; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D019047:Phantoms, Imaging; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care; D016634:Radiosurgery / Q000592:standards*; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed