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Photon-counting detector CT: a disrupting innovation in medical imaging


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  1. We compared ultra-high resolution (UHR), standard resolution (SR), and virtual non-calcium (VNCa) reconstruction for coronary artery stenosis evaluation using photon-counting computed tomography (PC-CT).

    Authors: Emese Zsarnoczay, Nicola Fink, U. Joseph Schoepf, Daniel Pinos, Jim O’Doherty, Thomas Allmendinger, Junia Hagenauer, Joseph P. Griffith III, Milán Vecsey-Nagy, Pál Maurovich-Horvat, Tilman Emrich and Akos Varga-Szemes
    Citation: European Radiology Experimental 2024 8:102
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  2. Lower extremity peripheral artery disease frequently presents with calcifications which reduces the accuracy of computed tomography (CT) angiography, especially below-the-knee. Photon-counting detector (PCD)-C...

    Authors: Dirk Graafen, Willi Bart, Moritz C. Halfmann, Lukas Müller, Lukas Hobohm, Yang Yang, Achim Neufang, Christine Espinola-Klein, Michael B. Pitton, Roman Kloeckner, Akos Varga-Szemes and Tilman Emrich
    Citation: European Radiology Experimental 2024 8:89
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  3. The potential role of cardiac computed tomography (CT) has increasingly been demonstrated for the assessment of diffuse myocardial fibrosis through the quantification of extracellular volume (ECV). Photon-coun...

    Authors: Chiara Gnasso, Daniel Pinos, U. Joseph Schoepf, Milan Vecsey-Nagy, Gilberto J. Aquino, Nicola Fink, Emese Zsarnoczay, Robert J. Holtackers, Jonathan Stock, Pal Suranyi, Akos Varga-Szemes and Tilman Emrich
    Citation: European Radiology Experimental 2024 8:70
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  4. Accurate assessment of breast implants is important for appropriate clinical management. We evaluated silicone properties and diagnostic accuracy for characterizing silicone implants and detecting degenerative...

    Authors: Claudia Neubauer, Oliver Gebler, Caroline Wilpert, Maxim Scherwitz, Niklas Efinger, Fabian Bamberg, Marisa Windfuhr-Blum and Jakob Neubauer
    Citation: European Radiology Experimental 2024 8:36
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  5. To identify subjects with rupture-prone atherosclerotic plaques before thrombotic events occur is an unmet clinical need. Thus, this proof-of-concept study aims to determine which rupture-prone plaque features...

    Authors: Annelie Shami, Jiangming Sun, Chrysostomi Gialeli, Hanna Markstad, Andreas Edsfeldt, Marie-Louise Aurumskjöld and Isabel Gonçalves
    Citation: European Radiology Experimental 2024 8:14
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  6. With the emergence of photon-counting CT, ultrahigh-resolution (UHR) imaging can be performed without dose penalty. This study aims to directly compare the image quality of UHR and standard resolution (SR) sca...

    Authors: Philipp Gruschwitz, Viktor Hartung, Süleyman Ergün, Dominik Peter, Sven Lichthardt, Henner Huflage, Robin Hendel, Pauline Pannenbecker, Anne Marie Augustin, Andreas Steven Kunz, Philipp Feldle, Thorsten Alexander Bley and Jan-Peter Grunz
    Citation: European Radiology Experimental 2023 7:83
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  7. Photon-counting detector computed tomography (PCD-CT) may influence imaging characteristics for various clinical conditions due to higher signal and contrast-to-noise ratio in virtual monoenergetic images (VMI...

    Authors: Elias V. Wolf, Lukas Müller, U. Joseph Schoepf, Nicola Fink, Joseph P. Griffith III, Emese Zsarnoczay, Dhiraj Baruah, Pal Suranyi, Ismael M. Kabakus, Moritz C. Halfmann, Tilman Emrich, Akos Varga-Szemes and Jim O‘Doherty
    Citation: European Radiology Experimental 2023 7:59
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  8. Successful osseointegration of joint replacement implants is required for long-term implant survival. Accurate assessment of osseointegration could enable clinical discrimination of failed implants from other ...

    Authors: Mischa Woisetschläger, Ronald Booij, Erik Tesselaar, Edwin H. G. Oei and Jörg Schilcher
    Citation: European Radiology Experimental 2023 7:19
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  9. In this study, stent appearance in a novel silicon-based photon-counting computed tomography (Si-PCCT) prototype was compared with a conventional energy-integrating detector CT (EIDCT) system.

    Authors: Emma Verelst, Nico Buls, Johan De Mey, Koenraad Hans Nieboer, Frans Vandenbergh, Dominic Crotty, Paul Deak, Albert Sundvall, Staffan Holmin, Aron De Smet, Steven Provyn and Gert Van Gompel
    Citation: European Radiology Experimental 2023 7:23
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  10. Photon-counting detector computed tomography (PCD-CT) has the potential to provide superior image quality compared to energy-integrating detector computed tomography (EID-CT). We compared the two systems for e...

    Authors: Lena Sonnow, Nigar Salimova, Lea Behrendt, Frank K. Wacker, Marcus Örgel, Jochen Plagge and Friederike Weidemann
    Citation: European Radiology Experimental 2023 7:15
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  11. As bone microstructure is known to impact bone strength, the aim of this in vitro study was to evaluate if the emerging photon-counting detector computed tomography (PCD-CT) technique may be used for measurements...

    Authors: Benjamin Klintström, Lilian Henriksson, Rodrigo Moreno, Alexandr Malusek, Örjan Smedby, Mischa Woisetschläger and Eva Klintström
    Citation: European Radiology Experimental 2022 6:31
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  12. We investigated whether features derived from texture analysis (TA) can distinguish breast density (BD) in spiral photon-counting breast computed tomography (PC-BCT).

    Authors: Anna Landsmann, Carlotta Ruppert, Jann Wieler, Patryk Hejduk, Alexander Ciritsis, Karol Borkowski, Moritz C. Wurnig, Cristina Rossi and Andreas Boss
    Citation: European Radiology Experimental 2022 6:30
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  13. Dual-energy computed tomography has shown a great interest for musculoskeletal pathologies. Photon-counting spectral computed tomography (PCSCT) can acquire data in multiple energy bins with the potential to i...

    Authors: Christine Chappard, Juan Abascal, Cécile Olivier, Salim Si-Mohamed, Loic Boussel, Jean Baptiste Piala, Philippe Douek and Francoise Peyrin
    Citation: European Radiology Experimental 2022 6:10
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  14. To evaluate the feasibility of multicolour quantitative imaging with spectral photon-counting computed tomography (SPCCT) of different mixed contrast agents.

    Authors: Salim Si-Mohamed, Daniel Bar-Ness, Monica Sigovan, Valérie Tatard-Leitman, David P. Cormode, Pratap C. Naha, Philippe Coulon, Lucie Rascle, Ewald Roessl, Michal Rokni, Ami Altman, Yoad Yagil, Loic Boussel and Philippe Douek
    Citation: European Radiology Experimental 2018 2:34
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  15. To assess the feasibility of dual-contrast spectral photon-counting computed tomography (SPCCT) for liver imaging.

    Authors: Daniela Muenzel, Heiner Daerr, Roland Proksa, Alexander A. Fingerle, Felix K. Kopp, Philippe Douek, Julia Herzen, Franz Pfeiffer, Ernst J. Rummeny and Peter B. Noël
    Citation: European Radiology Experimental 2017 1:25
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