Synthetic hematocrit from virtual non-contrast images for myocardial extracellular volume evaluation with photon-counting detector CT.

Victor MergenNicolas EhrbarLukas J MoserJohannes C HarmesRobert MankaHatem AlkadhiMatthias Eberhard

Published in: European radiology (2024)

Blood hematocrit is mandatory for conventional myocardial extracellular volume computation. Synthetic hematocrit can be calculated from virtual non-iodine and non-contrast photon-counting detector CT images. Synthetic hematocrit from virtual non-contrast images enables computation of the myocardial extracellular volume.

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