Photon-Counting Detector CT for Liver Lesion Detection-Optimal Virtual Monoenergetic Energy for Different Simulated Patient Sizes and Radiation Doses.

Damien RacineVictor MergenAnaïs ViryThomas FrauenfelderHatem AlkadhiVeronika VitzthumAndré Euler

Published in: Investigative radiology (2024)

Detectability of hypoattenuating and hyperattenuating liver lesions differed between VMI energies for different phantom sizes and radiation doses. Virtual monoenergetic images at 65 and 70 keV yielded highest detectability independent of phantom size and radiation dose.

Keyphrases

dual energy
image quality
computed tomography
deep learning
contrast enhanced
case report
radiation induced
convolutional neural network
optical coherence tomography
density functional theory
magnetic resonance imaging
machine learning
living cells
pet ct
single molecule