ArticleIEEE transactions on radiation and plasma medical sciences2021
Spectral Photon Counting CT: Imaging Algorithms and Performance Assessment.
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- Understanding Photon-Counting CT: Physics, Detector Technology, and Image Reconstructions.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Spectral CT and Photon-counting Detector CT: Principles and Applications in Neuroradiology.Radiology. Imaging cancer · 2026Review
- A physics primer on photon-counting detectors in CT: Physics, signal formation, and performance.Medical physics · 2026Review
- Photon-counting detector CT in cardiovascular imaging: technical advances, clinical applications, and future perspectives.The international journal of cardiovascular imaging · 2026Review
- Spectral deep learning-based patient and bowtie scatter correction for clinical photon-counting CT.Medical physics · 2026Article
- Deep Few-View High-Resolution Photon-Counting CT at Halved Dose for Extremity Imaging.IEEE transactions on medical imaging · 2026Article
- Agreement between in vivo and ex vivo photon-counting CT measurements of subchondral trabecular bone features in patients with knee osteoarthritis.European radiology · 2026Article
- Performance of virtual unenhanced images on a prototype silicon photon counting detector CT: preliminary clinical results.BMC biomedical engineering · 2026Article
- Neuroimaging with photon-counting computed tomography: A review of clinical applications.World journal of radiology · 2025Review
- Computed tomography ring artifact correction method with super-pixel segmentation and adaptive relative total variation.Quantitative imaging in medicine and surgery · 2025Article
- Utility of photon-counting detectors for MV-kV dual-energy computed tomography imaging.Journal of medical imaging (Bellingham, Wash.) · 2024Article
- Photon-Counting Computed Tomography Angiography of Carotid Arteries: A Topical Narrative Review with Case Examples.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Chances and challenges of photon-counting CT in musculoskeletal imaging.Skeletal radiology · 2024Review
- To Reconstruct or Discard: A Comparison of Additive and Subtractive Charge Sharing Correction Algorithms at High and Low X-ray Fluxes.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- CT radiomic features reproducibility of virtual non-contrast series derived from photon-counting CCTA datasets using a novel calcium-preserving reconstruction algorithm compared with standard non-contrast series: focusing on epicardial adipose tissue.The international journal of cardiovascular imaging · 2024Article
- Photon-Counting Computed Tomography in Atherosclerotic Plaque Characterization.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Spectral Photon-Counting Computed Tomography: Technical Principles and Applications in the Assessment of Cardiovascular Diseases.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Review
- [A comprehensive review on photon-counting computed tomography: Principles, technical hurdles and analysis of clinical applications].Sheng wu yi xue gong cheng xue za zhi = Journal of biomedical engineering = Shengwu yixue gongchengxue zazhi · 2023Review
- Cardiovascular Applications of Photon-Counting CT Technology: A Revolutionary New Diagnostic Step.Journal of cardiovascular development and disease · 2023Review
- Dual-Source Photon-Counting Computed Tomography-Part I: Clinical Overview of Cardiac CT and Coronary CT Angiography Applications.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Review
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Abstract
Photon counting x-ray detectors (PCDs) with spectral capabilities have the potential to revolutionize computed tomography (CT) for medical imaging. The ideal PCD provides accurate energy information for each incident x-ray, and at high spatial resolution. This information enables material-specific imaging, enhanced radiation dose efficiency, and improved spatial resolution in CT images. In practice, PCDs are affected by non-idealities, including limited energy resolution, pulse pileup, and cross talk due to charge sharing, K-fluorescence, and Compton scattering. In order to maximize their performance, PCDs must be carefully designed to reduce these effects and then later account for them during correction and post-acquisition steps. This review article examines algorithms for using PCDs in spectral CT applications, including how non-idealities impact image quality. Performance assessment metrics that account for spatial resolution and noise such as the detective quantum efficiency (DQE) can be used to compare different PCD designs, as well as compare PCDs with conventional energy integrating detectors (EIDs). These methods play an important role in enhancing spectral CT images and assessing the overall performance of PCDs.
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