Noninvasive cardiac imaging has rapidly evolved during the last decade owing to
improvements in computed tomography (CT)–based technologies, among which we …

Impending major hardware advances in cardiac CT include three areas: ultra-high-
resolution (UHR) CT, photon-counting CT, and phase-contrast CT. Cardiac CT is a …

Purpose The aim of this study was to investigate computed tomography (CT) imaging
characteristics of coronary stents using a novel photon-counting detector (PCD) in …

Vascular calcification, a common pathological phenomenon in atherosclerosis, diabetes,
hypertension, and other diseases, increases the incidence and mortality of cardiovascular …

Purpose Talbot–Lau x‐ray interferometry provides information about the scattering and
refractive properties of an object—in addition to the object's attenuation features. Until …

Purpose The aim of this study was to investigate whether the detection of foreign bodies can
be improved using dark-field and phase-contrast radiography compared with conventional …

X-ray Phase-Contrast Computed Tomography (PC-CT) increases contrast in weakly
attenuating samples, such as soft tissues. In Edge-Illumination (EI) PC-CT, phase effects are …

This work addresses several challenges of grating-based phase-contrast computed
tomography (GBPC-CT) that occur when going from monochromatic, high-flux synchrotron …

More than 100 years ago Max von Laue in Munich discovered that X‑rays can be interpreted
not only as X‑ray quanta in a particle picture, but also show a wave character. This property …

Today, cardiovascular disease remains the foremost cause of death worldwide. More than
70% of all cardiovascular diseases are due to dysfunction of the coronary arteries, which fail …