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Clinical Applications of Dual-Energy CT

Dual-energy CT (DECT) provides insights into the material properties of tissues and can differentiate between tissues with similar attenuation on conventional single-energy imaging. In the conventional CT scanner, differences in the X-ray attenuation between adjacent structures are dependent on the...

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Autores principales: Hamid, Saira, Nasir, Muhammad Umer, So, Aaron, Andrews, Gordon, Nicolaou, Savvas, Qamar, Sadia Raheez
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Korean Society of Radiology 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8154785/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33856133
http://dx.doi.org/10.3348/kjr.2020.0996
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author Hamid, Saira
Nasir, Muhammad Umer
So, Aaron
Andrews, Gordon
Nicolaou, Savvas
Qamar, Sadia Raheez
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description Dual-energy CT (DECT) provides insights into the material properties of tissues and can differentiate between tissues with similar attenuation on conventional single-energy imaging. In the conventional CT scanner, differences in the X-ray attenuation between adjacent structures are dependent on the atomic number of the materials involved, whereas in DECT, the difference in the attenuation is dependent on both the atomic number and electron density. The basic principle of DECT is to obtain two datasets with different X-ray energy levels from the same anatomic region and material decomposition based on attenuation differences at different energy levels. In this article, we discuss the clinical applications of DECT and its potential robust improvements in performance and postprocessing capabilities.
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spelling pubmed-81547852021-06-08 Clinical Applications of Dual-Energy CT Hamid, Saira Nasir, Muhammad Umer So, Aaron Andrews, Gordon Nicolaou, Savvas Qamar, Sadia Raheez Korean J Radiol Technology, Experiment, and Physics Dual-energy CT (DECT) provides insights into the material properties of tissues and can differentiate between tissues with similar attenuation on conventional single-energy imaging. In the conventional CT scanner, differences in the X-ray attenuation between adjacent structures are dependent on the atomic number of the materials involved, whereas in DECT, the difference in the attenuation is dependent on both the atomic number and electron density. The basic principle of DECT is to obtain two datasets with different X-ray energy levels from the same anatomic region and material decomposition based on attenuation differences at different energy levels. In this article, we discuss the clinical applications of DECT and its potential robust improvements in performance and postprocessing capabilities. The Korean Society of Radiology 2021-06 2021-04-01 /pmc/articles/PMC8154785/ /pubmed/33856133 http://dx.doi.org/10.3348/kjr.2020.0996 Text en Copyright © 2021 The Korean Society of Radiology https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) ) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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