Photon counting CT: clinical applications and future developments

SS Hsieh, S Leng, K Rajendran, S Tao… - IEEE transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The use of a photon counting detector in CT (PCD CT) is currently the subject of intense
investigation and development. In this review article, we will describe potential clinical …

Dual-and multi-energy CT for particle stopping-power estimation: current state, challenges and potential

M Yang, P Wohlfahrt, C Shen… - Physics in Medicine & …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Range uncertainty has been a key factor preventing particle radiotherapy from reaching its
full physical potential. One of the main contributing sources is the uncertainty in estimating …

Photon-counting computed tomography for vascular imaging of the head and neck: first in vivo human results

R Symons, DS Reich, M Bagheri, TE Cork… - Investigative …, 2018 - journals.lww.com
Purpose The purpose of this study was to evaluate image quality of a spectral photon-
counting detector (PCD) computed tomography (CT) system for evaluation of major arteries …

Multicolour imaging with spectral photon-counting CT: a phantom study

S Si-Mohamed, D Bar-Ness, M Sigovan… - European radiology …, 2018 - Springer
Background To evaluate the feasibility of multicolour quantitative imaging with spectral
photon-counting computed tomography (SPCCT) of different mixed contrast agents …

Comprehensive evaluations of a prototype full field-of-view photon counting CT system through phantom studies

X Zhan, R Zhang, X Niu, I Hein, B Budden… - Physics in Medicine …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Objective. Photon counting CT (PCCT) has been a research focus in the last two decades.
Recent studies and advancements have demonstrated that systems using semiconductor …

DIRECT‐Net: A unified mutual‐domain material decomposition network for quantitative dual‐energy CT imaging

T Su, X Sun, J Yang, D Mi, Y Zhang, H Wu… - Medical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present an end‐to‐end deep convolutional neural
network to improve the dual‐energy CT (DECT) material decomposition performance …

Joint image reconstruction method with correlative multi-channel prior for x-ray spectral computed tomography

D Kazantsev, JS Jørgensen, MS Andersen… - Inverse …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Rapid developments in photon-counting and energy-discriminating detectors have the
potential to provide an additional spectral dimension to conventional x-ray grayscale …

Model‐based pulse pileup and charge sharing compensation for photon counting detectors: A simulation study

K Taguchi, C Polster, WP Segars, N Aygun… - Medical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose We aim at developing a model‐based algorithm that compensates for the effect of
both pulse pileup (PP) and charge sharing (CS) and evaluates the performance using …

Spectral calibration of photon‐counting detectors at high photon flux

EY Sidky, ER Paul, T Gilat‐Schmidt, X Pan - Medical physics, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Background Calibration of photon‐counting detectors (PCDs) is necessary for quantitatively
accurate spectral computed tomography (CT), but the calibration process can be …

High‐resolution model‐based material decomposition in dual‐layer flat‐panel CBCT

W Wang, Y Ma, M Tivnan, J Li, GJ Gang… - Medical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose Spectral CT uses energy‐dependent measurements that enable material
discrimination in addition to reconstruction of structural information. Flat‐panel detectors …