High-Resolution Head CTA: A Prospective Patient Study Comparing Image Quality of Photon-Counting Detector CT and Energy-Integrating Detector CT.
Felix E DiehnZhongxing ZhouJamison E ThorneNorbert G CampeauAlex A NagelschneiderLaurence J EckelJohn C BensonAjay A MadhavanGirish BathlaVance T LehmanNathan Robert HuberFrancis I BaffourJoel G FletcherCynthia H McColloughLifeng YuPublished in: AJNR. American journal of neuroradiology (2024)
PCD-CT provides improved image quality for head CTA images compared with EID-CT, both when PCD and EID reconstructions are matched, and to an even greater extent when PCD-UHR reconstruction is combined with a CNN denoising algorithm.