Low Dose Lung Cancer Screening With Photon-Counting CT: A Feasibility Study

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the feasibility of using a whole-body photon-counting detector (PCD) CT scanner for low dose lung cancer screening compared to a conventional energy integrating detector (EID) system. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Radiation dose-matched EID and PCD scans of the COPDGene 2 phantom wer...

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Published in:Phys Med Biol
Main Authors: Symons, Rolf, Cork, Tyler, Sahbaee, Pooyan, Fuld, Matthew K., Kappler, Steffen, Folio, Les R., Bluemke, David A., Pourmorteza, Amir
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: 2016
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5237389/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27991453
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1361-6560/62/1/202
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