Is There Still a Role for Two-Phase Contrast-Enhanced CT and Virtual Monoenergetic Images in the Era of Photon-Counting Detector CT?
Arne EstlerKonstantin NikolaouStefan O SchönbergFabian BambergMatthias Frank FroelichFabian TollensNiklas VerlohJakob WeissMarius HorgerFlorian HagenPublished in: Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) (2023)
The arterial contrast phase imaging provides higher lesion-to-background ratios of HCC lesions using a PCD-CT; especially, at 40 keV. However, the difference was not subjectively perceived as significant.
Keyphrases
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