Photon-counting CT: technical principles and clinical prospects

MJ Willemink, M Persson, A Pourmorteza, NJ Pelc… - Radiology, 2018 - pubs.rsna.org
Photon-counting CT is an emerging technology with the potential to dramatically change
clinical CT. Photon-counting CT uses new energy-resolving x-ray detectors, with …

Dual-and multi-energy CT: principles, technical approaches, and clinical applications

CH McCollough, S Leng, L Yu, JG Fletcher - Radiology, 2015 - pubs.rsna.org
In x-ray computed tomography (CT), materials having different elemental compositions can
be represented by identical pixel values on a CT image (ie, CT numbers), depending on the …

Spectral photon-counting computed tomography: a review on technical principles and clinical applications

M Tortora, L Gemini, I D'Iglio, L Ugga, G Spadarella… - Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Photon-counting computed tomography (CT) is a technology that has attracted increasing
interest in recent years since, thanks to new-generation detectors, it holds the promise to …

Principles and applications of multienergy CT: Report of AAPM Task Group 291

CH McCollough, K Boedeker, D Cody, X Duan… - Medical …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
In x‐ray computed tomography (CT), materials with different elemental compositions can
have identical CT number values, depending on the mass density of each material and the …

Dual-energy CT–based monochromatic imaging

L Yu, S Leng, CH McCollough - American journal of …, 2012 - Am Roentgen Ray Soc
OBJECTIVE. We summarize how virtual monochromatic images are synthesized from dual-
energy CT using image-domain and projection-domain methods. The quality of virtual …

State of the art: dual-energy CT of the abdomen

D Marin, DT Boll, A Mileto, RC Nelson - Radiology, 2014 - pubs.rsna.org
Recent technologic advances in computed tomography (CT)—enabling the nearly
simultaneous acquisition of clinical images using two different x-ray energy spectra—have …

Dual-energy CT for the musculoskeletal system

PI Mallinson, TM Coupal, PD McLaughlin, S Nicolaou… - Radiology, 2016 - pubs.rsna.org
The principal advantages of dual-energy computed tomography (CT) over conventional CT
in the musculoskeletal setting relate to the additional information provided regarding tissue …

Assessment of an advanced image-based technique to calculate virtual monoenergetic computed tomographic images from a dual-energy examination to improve …

KL Grant, TG Flohr, B Krauss, M Sedlmair… - Investigative …, 2014 - journals.lww.com
Materials and Methods Four circular phantoms of different diameter (10–40 cm) with an
iodine insert at the center were scanned at a fixed radiation dose with different single-(80 …

Intermanufacturer comparison of dual-energy CT iodine quantification and monochromatic attenuation: a phantom study

MC Jacobsen, D Schellingerhout, CA Wood, EP Tamm… - Radiology, 2018 - pubs.rsna.org
Purpose To determine the accuracy of dual-energy computed tomographic (CT) quantitation
in a phantom system comparing fast kilovolt peak–switching, dual-source, split-filter …

Standardization and quantitative imaging with photon-counting detector CT

CH McCollough, K Rajendran, S Leng - Investigative radiology, 2023 - journals.lww.com
Computed tomography (CT) images display anatomic structures across 3 dimensions and
are highly quantitative; they are the reference standard for 3-dimensional geometric …