Clinical applications of photon counting detector CT

CH McCollough, K Rajendran, FI Baffour, FE Diehn… - European …, 2023 - Springer
The X-ray detector is a fundamental component of a CT system that determines the image
quality and dose efficiency. Until the approval of the first clinical photon-counting-detector …

Dedicated breast CT: State of the art—Part II. Clinical application and future outlook

Y Zhu, AM O'Connell, Y Ma, A Liu, H Li, Y Zhang… - European …, 2022 - Springer
Dedicated breast CT is being increasingly used for breast imaging. This technique provides
images with no compression, removal of tissue overlap, rapid acquisition, and available …

Increased dose efficiency of breast CT with grating interferometry

M Rawlik, A Pereira, S Spindler, Z Wang, L Romano… - Optica, 2023 - opg.optica.org
Refraction-based x-ray imaging can overcome the fundamental contrast limit of computed
tomography (CT), particularly in soft tissue, but so far has been constrained to high-dose ex …

Dedicated breast CT: state of the art—Part I. Historical evolution and technical aspects

Y Zhu, AM O'Connell, Y Ma, A Liu, H Li, Y Zhang… - European …, 2022 - Springer
Dedicated breast CT is an emerging 3D isotropic imaging technology for breast, which
overcomes the limitations of 2D compression mammography and limited angle …

Photon counting CT: technical principles, clinical applications, and future prospects

Y Wu, Z Ye, J Chen, L Deng, B Song - Academic Radiology, 2023 - Elsevier
Photon-counting computed tomography (PCCT) is a new technique that utilizes photon-
counting detectors to convert individual X-ray photons directly into an electrical signal, which …

Applying artificial intelligence technology to assist with breast cancer diagnosis and prognosis prediction

MA Jones, W Islam, R Faiz, X Chen, B Zheng - Frontiers in oncology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Breast cancer remains the most diagnosed cancer in women. Advances in medical imaging
modalities and technologies have greatly aided in the early detection of breast cancer and …

Potential of ultra-high-resolution photon-counting CT of bone metastases: initial experiences in breast cancer patients

E Wehrse, S Sawall, L Klein, P Glemser, S Delorme… - NPJ breast …, 2021 - nature.com
Conventional CT scanners use energy-integrating detectors (EIDs). Photon-counting
detector (PCD) computed tomography (CT) utilizes a CT detector technology based on …

[HTML][HTML] Recent advances in X-ray imaging of breast tissue: From two-to three-dimensional imaging

L Heck, J Herzen - Physica Medica, 2020 - Elsevier
Breast cancer is a globally widespread disease whose detection has already been
significantly improved by the introduction of screening programs. Nevertheless …

Flat-panel conebeam CT in the clinic: history and current state

R Fahrig, DA Jaffray, I Sechopoulos… - Journal of Medical …, 2021 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Research into conebeam CT concepts began as soon as the first clinical single-slice CT
scanner was conceived. Early implementations of conebeam CT in the 1980s focused on …

Image quality comparison between a phase-contrast synchrotron radiation breast CT and a clinical breast CT: a phantom based study

L Brombal, F Arfelli, P Delogu, S Donato, G Mettivier… - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
In this study we compared the image quality of a synchrotron radiation (SR) breast computed
tomography (BCT) system with a clinical BCT in terms of contrast-to-noise ratio (CNR) …