Ces radiol. 2022, 76(3):158-166 | DOI: 10.55095/CesRadiol2022/020

Photon-counting CTReview article

Lucie Súkupová
Institut klinické a experimentální medicíny, Praha

CT with photon-counting detectors is an emerging technology that overcomessome drawbacks of the conventional CT with energyintegrating detectors. It candifferentiate individual X-ray photons, so acquired data does not suffer fromelectronic noise. Moreover, photon-counting detectors provide ultra highresolution without increased dose. And finally, detectors provide spectraldata which enables differentiation of different materials in CT data,therefore virtual monoenergetic and non-contrast images can be reconstructed.

Keywords: energy-integrating detector, mo-noenergetic image, photon-counting detector,spectral data, virtual non-contrats image, ultra high resolution

Published: September 1, 2022  Show citation

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Súkupová L. Photon-counting CT. Ces radiol. 2022;76(3):158-166. doi: 10.55095/CesRadiol2022/020.
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