Cardiac imaging with photon counting CT

T Flohr, B Schmidt, S Ulzheimer… - The British Journal of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
CT of the heart, in particular ECG-controlled coronary CT angiography (cCTA), has become
clinical routine due to rapid technical progress with ever new generations of CT equipment …

Myocardial extracellular volume quantification with computed tomography—current status and future outlook

G Cundari, N Galea, V Mergen, H Alkadhi… - Insights into …, 2023 - Springer
Non-invasive quantification of the extracellular volume (ECV) is a method for the evaluation
of focal and diffuse myocardial fibrosis, potentially obviating the need for invasive …

Photon-counting detector CT virtual monoenergetic images for coronary artery stenosis quantification: phantom and in vivo evaluation

EV Wolf, MC Halfmann… - American Journal of …, 2024 - Am Roentgen Ray Soc
BACKGROUND. Calcium blooming causes stenosis overestimation on coronary CTA.
OBJECTIVE. The purpose of this article was to evaluate the impact of virtual monoenergetic …

Cardiovascular applications of photon-counting CT technology: a revolutionary new diagnostic step

A Meloni, F Cademartiri, V Positano, S Celi… - Journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Photon-counting computed tomography (PCCT) is an emerging technology that can
potentially transform clinical CT imaging. After a brief description of the PCCT technology …

Synthetic hematocrit from virtual non-contrast images for myocardial extracellular volume evaluation with photon-counting detector CT

V Mergen, N Ehrbar, LJ Moser, JC Harmes… - European …, 2024 - Springer
Objectives To assess the accuracy of a synthetic hematocrit derived from virtual non-contrast
(VNC) and virtual non-iodine images (VNI) for myocardial extracellular volume (ECV) …

Spectral Photon-Counting Computed Tomography: Technical Principles and Applications in the Assessment of Cardiovascular Diseases

A Meloni, E Maffei, A Clemente, C De Gori… - Journal of Clinical …, 2024 - mdpi.com
Spectral Photon-Counting Computed Tomography (SPCCT) represents a groundbreaking
advancement in X-ray imaging technology. The core innovation of SPCCT lies in its photon …

[HTML][HTML] Myocardial late enhancement and extracellular volume with single-energy, dual-energy, and photon-counting computed tomography

N Oyama-Manabe, S Oda, Y Ohta, H Takagi… - Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Computed tomography late enhancement (CT-LE) is emerging as a non-invasive technique
for cardiac diagnosis with wider accessibility compared to MRI, despite its typically lower …

Regional distribution of extracellular volume quantified by cardiac CT in aortic stenosis: insights into disease mechanisms and impact on outcomes

KP Patel, PR Scully, B Saberwal, A Sinha… - Circulation …, 2024 - Am Heart Assoc
BACKGROUND: Extracellular volume fraction (ECV) is a marker for myocardial fibrosis and
infiltration, can be quantified using cardiac computed tomography (ECVCT), and has …

Radiology: Cardiothoracic Imaging Highlights 2022

D Mastrodicasa, GJ Aquino, KG Ordovas… - Radiology …, 2023 - pubs.rsna.org
Since its inaugural issue in 2019, Radiology: Cardiothoracic Imaging has disseminated the
latest scientific advances and technical developments in cardiac, vascular, and thoracic …

Photon-counting detector computed tomography in cardiac imaging

SP Sharma, MJDK Lemmens, MW Smulders… - Netherlands Heart …, 2024 - Springer
Photon-counting detector computed tomography (PCD-CT) has emerged as a revolutionary
technology in CT imaging. PCD-CT offers significant advancements over conventional …