Spectral, Photon Counting Computed Tomography-Technology and Applications

Part I Spectral, Dual-Energy CT: Clinical Perspective and Applications
Chapter 1 Spectral Imaging Technologies and Apps and Dual-Layer Detector Solution
Nadav Shapira, Yoad Yagil, Naor Wainer, and Ami Altman
Chapter 2 Clinical Applications of Dual Energy CT in Neuroradiology
Rajiv Gupta, Maarten Poirot, and Rick Bergmans
Chapter 3 Clinical Perspective on Dual Energy Computed Tomography
Charis McNabney, Shamir Rai, and Darra T. Murphy
Part II Spectral, Photon-Counting CT: Clinical Perspective and Applications
Chapter 4 Imaging of the Breast with Photon-Counting Detectors
Stephen J. Glick and Bahaa Ghammraoui
Chapter 5 Clinical Applications of Photon-Counting Detector Computed Tomography
Shuai Leng, Shengzhen Tao, Kishore Rajendran, and Cynthia H. McCollough
Chapter 6 Clinical Perspectives of Spectral Photon-Counting CT
Salim Si-Mohamed, Loic Boussel, and Philippe Douek
Chapter 7 Spectral CT Imaging Using MARS Scanners
Aamir Raja et al
Chapter 8 Advances in and Uses of Contrast Agents for Spectral Photon Counting Computed Tomography
Johoon Kim, Pratap C. Naha, Peter B. Noël, and David P. Cormode
Chapter 9 Clinical Applications of Spectral Computed Tomography: Enabling Technique for Novel Contrast Development and Targeting Imaging?
Thorsten Fleiter
Part III Photon-Counting Detectors for Spectral CT
Chapter 10 X-Ray Detectors for Spectral Photon Counting CT
Ira Blevis
Chapter 11 Spectral Performance of Photon-Counting X-Ray Detectors: How Well Can We Capture the Rainbow?
Peter Trueb, Pietro Zambon, and Christian Broennimann
Chapter 12 Photon Counting Detectors Viewed as Nonlinear, Shift-Variant Systems
Thomas Koenig
Chapter 13 Signal Generation in Semiconductor Detectors for Photon-Counting CT
Xiaochun Lai, Liang Cai, Kevin Zimmerman, and Richard Thompson
Chapter 14 Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs) for Spectral Photon Counting
Chris Siu, Conny Hansson, and Krzysztof Iniewski
Chapter 15 ChromAIX: Energy-Resolving Photon Counting Electronics for High-Flux Spectral CT
Roger Steadman, Christoph Herrmann, and Amir Livne
Chapter 16 Modeling the Imaging Performance of Photon Counting X-Ray Detectors
Jesse Tanguay and Ian Cunningham
Chapter 17 Design Considerations for Photon-Counting Detectors: Connecting Detector Characteristics to System Performance
Scott S. Hsieh
Chapter 18 Photon Counting Detector Simulator: Photon Counting Toolkit (PcTK)
Katsuyuki Taguchi
Part IV Image Reconstruction for Spectral CT
Chapter 19 Image Formation in Spectral Computed Tomography
Simon Rit, Cyril Mory, and Peter B. Noël
Chapter 20 Spectral Distortion Compensation for Spectral CT
Okkyun Lee and Katsuyuki Taguchi
Chapter 21 Novel Regularization Method with Knowledge of Region Types and Boundaries
Kenji Amaya and Katsuyuki Taguchi