Pulmonary embolism is a common condition with high short– term morbidity. Pulmonary embolism can be treated successfully but diagnosis remains difficult due to the large variability of symptoms, which are often non–specific including breath shortness, chest pain and cough. Dual energy CT produces 4–dimensional data by acquiring variation of attenuation with respect to spatial coordinates and al...

To investigate the potential relationship between perfusion parameters from first-pass dual-input perfusion computed tomography (DI-PCT) and iodine uptake levels estimated from dual-energy CT (DE-CT).The pre-experimental part of this study included a dynamic DE-CT protocol in 15 patients to evaluate peak arterial enhancement of lung cancer based on time-attenuation curves, and the scan time of ...

INTRODUCTION The characterization of urinary calculi using noninvasive methods has the potential to affect clinical management. CT remains the gold standard for diagnosis of urinary calculi, but has not reliably differentiated varying stone compositions. Dual-energy CT (DECT) has emerged as a technology to improve CT characterization of anatomic structures. This study aims to assess the ability...

Rationale and ObjectivesTo evaluate the image quality of virtual monochromatic images (VMI) reconstructed from dual-energy dual-source noncontrast head CT with different reconstruction kernels.Materials MethodsTwenty-five consecutive adult patients underwent CT. VMI were retrospectively at 5-keV increments 40 to 140 keV using quantitative kernels. CT-number, noise levels (SD), signal-to-noise r...

The purpose of this work is to present a new method to extract the electron density ([Formula: see text]) and the effective atomic number (Z eff) from dual-energy CT images, based on a Karhunen-Loeve expansion (KLE) of the atomic cross section per electron. This method was used to calibrate a Siemens Definition CT using the CIRS phantom. The predicted electron density and effective atomic numbe...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The virtual noncontrast images generated with iodine subtraction from dual-energy CTA images are expected to replace the true noncontrast images for radiation-dose reduction. This study assessed the feasibility of virtual noncontrast images for diagnosing SAH. MATERIALS AND METHODS Eighty-four patients with or without SAH underwent true noncontrast brain CT (the criteri...