The accelerating complexity and variety of medical imaging devices and methods have
outpaced the ability to evaluate and optimize their design and clinical use. This is a …

Diagnostic approaches based on multimodal imaging are needed for accurate selection of
the therapeutic regimens in several diseases, although the dose of administered contrast …

Attenuation correction (AC) is an essential step in the positron emission tomography (PET)
data reconstruction process to provide accurate and quantitative PET images. The …

New multifunctional theranostic vectors allow the expansion of cancer therapeutic
approaches toward scarcely investigated fields. One example is the combination of boron …

Compared with standard computed tomography (CT), dual spectral CT (DSCT) has many
advantages for object separation, contrast enhancement, artifact reduction, and material …

Purpose: Dual‐energy computed tomography (DECT) makes it possible to get two fractions
of basis materials without segmentation. One is the soft‐tissue equivalent water fraction and …

Background Calibration of photon‐counting detectors (PCDs) is necessary for quantitatively
accurate spectral computed tomography (CT), but the calibration process can be …

X-ray spectrum plays a very important role in dual energy computed tomography (DECT)
reconstruction. Because it is difficult to measure x-ray spectrum directly in practice, efforts …

Computed tomography has experienced a number of significant technological advances
over the past decade, and these have had pronounced impacts on the accuracy of radiation …

Background In diagnostic X-ray computed tomography (CT) imaging, some applications,
such as dose measurement using the Monte Carlo method and material decomposition …