Eliminated risk of iodine contrast cancellation with multibin spectral CT

• This note compares the extent of contrast cancellation induced by iodinated contrast agents in energy integrating and photon counting multibin CT images. The contrast between a hypodense target and soft tissue is modeled for the two systems for a range of iodine concentrations and tube voltages. In energy integrating systems, we show that the contrast vanishes for low concentrations of iodine whereas the same effect is not seen in multibin systems. We conclude that it is the ability of multibin systems to apply weighting schemes post-acquisition that allows the operator to eliminate the risk of contrast cancellation between iodinated targets and the background.

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NATURVETENSKAP  -- Fysik -- Annan fysik (hsv//swe)

NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Physical Sciences -- Other Physics Topics (hsv//eng)

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Integrating systems

Iodinated contrast agents

Iodine concentration

Low concentrations

Photon counting

Soft tissue

Tube voltages

Weighting scheme

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