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Type of Artifacts Description No. of Cases (incidence) on 64-Section CTA No. of Cases (incidence) on 16-Section CTA P Value (Fisher exact test) Patient motion artifacts Gross motion during scan acquisition 0 (0%) 3 (2.7%) .247 Streak artifacts of venous origin Dense undiluted contrast in SCV, BCV; SVC obscures great vessel origins 32 (32%) 29 (25.7%) .363 Shoulder streak artifacts Photon starvation between shoulders obscures CCA, VA, IJV in lower neck 28 (28%) 33 (29.2%) .880 Metallic streak artifacts Dental hardware, cardiac defibrillator leads, spinal fusion hardware obscure adjacent arteries 26 (26%) 32 (28.3%) .759 Contrast material reflux Contrast reflux into veins of neck obscures adjacent VA 16 (16%) 17 (15%) .852 Flow artifacts: Altered flow dynamics (eg, slow flow) and rapid scanning time create appearance of dissection flap or nonopacification of patent vessel 14a (14%) 0 (0%) <.001 Arterial Pseudo-dissection 5 Pseudo-occlusion 6 Differential attenuation 1 Venous Pseudo-thrombosis 3
Note:—CCA indicates common carotid artery; BCV, brachiocephalic vein; IJV, internal jugular vein; SCV, subclavian vein; SVC, superior vena cava; VA, vertebral artery; CTA, CT angiography.
a One patient had both pseudodissection and pseudo-occlusion.