Jayasai R Rajagopal, Fides R Schwartz, Cindy McCabe, Faraz Farhadi, Mojtaba Zarei, Francesco Ria, Ehsan Abadi, Paul Segars, Juan Carlos Ramirez-Giraldo, Elizabeth C Jones, Travis Henry, Daniele Marin, Ehsan Samei
OBJECTIVE: Different methods can be used to condition imaging systems for clinical use. The purpose of this study was to assess how these methods complement one another in evaluating a system for clinical integration of an emerging technology, photon-counting computed tomography (PCCT), for thoracic imaging. METHODS: Four methods were used to assess a clinical PCCT system (NAEOTOM Alpha; Siemens Healthineers, Forchheim, Germany) across 3 reconstruction kernels (Br40f, Br48f, and Br56f)...
April 15, 2024: Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography