Dual-Energy Computed Tomography
Role of Dual Energy Computed Tomography Imaging in the Diagnosis of Gout
... Corresponding author: Divya Jayakumar, [email protected] Disclosures can be found in Additional Information at the end of the article Abstract Gout is a well-known inflammatory arthritis and affects four percent of the ...
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Applications of advanced and dual energy computed tomography in proton therapy
... Thanks to the physical properties and the achievable steep gradients in Spread-Out Bragg Peak, heavy particles (protons and carbon ions) are emerg- ing as therapy of choice over conventional photon radiotherapy to ...
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Detection of calcium pyrophosphate dihydrate crystals in knee meniscus by dual-energy computed tomography
... 25. Zheng X, Liu Y, Li M, Wang Q, Song B. Dual-energy computed tomography for characterizing urinary calcified calculi and uric acid calculi: a meta- analysis. Eur J Radiol. 2016;85(10):1843 – ...
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Emerging imaging techniques in spondyloarthritis dual-energy computed tomography and new MRI sequences
... of dual-energy computed tomography (DECT) provides an innovative alternative for BME detection in ...conventional computed tomography (CT) is that DECT involves the acquisition ...
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Dual-Energy Computed Tomography for Accurate Stopping-Power Prediction in Proton Treatment Planning
... of Dual-Energy Computed Tomography weeks before treatment is used as single baseline for ...a dual-spiral 4D-DECT scan can contribute to identify patients with irregular and ...
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Optimized management of urolithiasis by coloured stent-stone contrast using dual-energy computed tomography (DECT)
... like dual-energy computed tomography (DECT) acquisition of additional information on chemical stone composition is now ...x-ray energy spectra is utilized to differentiate uric-acid ...
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Dual energy computed tomography has limited sensitivity for non tophaceous gout: a comparison study with tophaceous gout
... Dual-energy computed tomography protocol DECT images were obtained of the four limbs scanned in pairs: the hands/wrists, feet/ankles, elbows, and ...the dual energy ...a ...
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Urate crystal deposition and bone erosion in gout: ‘inside out’ or ‘outside in’? A dual energy computed tomography study
... three-dimensional dual-energy computed tomography (DECT) to analyse the positional relationship between bone and MSU crystal deposition in tophaceous gout, and to determine whether ...
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Iodine concentration calculated by dual-energy computed tomography (DECT) as a functional parameter to evaluate thyroid metabolism in patients with hyperthyroidism
... Recently, dual-energy computed tomography (DECT) with two different energy X-rays can calculate iodine concentrations and can be applied for iodine measurements in thyroid ...
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Stopping-power prediction with dual-energy computed tomography
... kinetic energy in the order of 100 MeV per nucleon slow down via electronic collisions, densely ionizing the medium along their path until they finally stop after a certain ...the energy is thereby ...
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Improvements in four-dimensional and dual energy computed tomography
... the energy spectrum, HVLs, air kerma, and mean ...Low energy spectra used in these simulations included every 10 kVp from 50 to 80 ...High energy spectra included every 20 kVp from 100 to 220 ...high ...
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Application of Dual Energy Computed Tomography for Breast Cancer Diagnosis
... Recently, dual-energy CT (DE-CT) has also been developed [6], which uses two types of CT datasets acquired with different X-ray spectra generated by different tube poten- ...
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Advances in dual-energy computed tomography imaging of radiological properties
... low energy brachytherapy, in order to achieve a 3%-4% linear attenuation estimation error at 30 keV, an error propagation analysis suggests that uncertainties in reconstructed image intensities must be less than ...
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In vivo determination of renal stone composition with dual-energy computed tomography
... on dual-energy monochromatic attenuation values or GSI Z eff values as predictors of failure to fragment renal stones may be of value to refine treatment ...
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Identification of Intracranial Lesions with Dual-Energy Computed Tomography and Magnetic Resonance Phase Imaging
... 124 within the QSM images, removing them would minimize the number of abrupt boundaries in the susceptibility map and may better represent the shape of most lesions within the brain. One of the main limitations to ...
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Scanning protocol optimisation for dual-energy computed tomography angiography in peripheral artery stenting
... Statistical analysis was performed with the help of commercial software SPSS version 22.0, (SPSS Inc., Chicago, Il). Quantitative variables were expressed as the mean ± SD and categorical variables as frequencies or ...
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Added value of dual-energy computed tomography versus single-energy computed tomography in assessing ferromagnetic properties of ballistic projectiles: Implications for magnetic resonance imaging of gunshot victims
... puted tomography (CT), especially dual-energy CT (DECT), may be able to distinguish between different ballistic ...different energy levels depends on their atomic number, the electron density, ...
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Original Article The value of performing dual-source dual-energy computed tomography in analysis strategy for urinary mixed stone
... of energy information in DECT imaging has become a popular area of research with the development of radiological technolo- ...a dual-source DECT and single-source ...single-source dual-energy ...
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Basis Vector Model Method for Proton Stopping Power Estimation using Dual-Energy Computed Tomography
... were computed via the spectrum- weighted least-squares fitting as described in Section ...the computed weights agree with those derived from idealized image ...
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Rationale and design of the dual-energy computed tomography for ischemia determination compared to “gold standard” non-invasive and invasive techniques (DECIDE-Gold) : a multicenter international efficacy diagnostic study of rest-stress dual-energy computed tomography angiography with perfusion
... Keywords Computed tomography; myocardial perfusion; coronary artery disease INTRODUCTION Multicenter randomized trial data examining invasive methods have demonstrated that a combined anatomic-physiologic ...
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