Obese patient imaging: improved dose efficiency with photon-counting CT

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Authors

Leening P. Liu · University of Pennsylvania

Kai Mei · University of Pennsylvania

Shobhit Sharma · Canon (United States)

Steven Ross · Canon (United States)

Sandra S. Halliburton · VA Northeast Ohio Healthcare System

Richard Thompson · VA Northeast Ohio Healthcare System

Naruomi Akino

Abstract

PCCT exhibited superior dose efficiency compared to EID-CT across a range of phantom sizes. The enhanced dose efficiency enables both noise reduction and potential dose reduction for the imaging of obese patients and low-dose imaging applications.

Topics & Keywords

Advanced X-ray and CT Imaging Radiation Dose and Imaging Digital Radiography and Breast Imaging

UN Sustainable Development Goals

Affordable and clean energy

Publication Details

Published in: medRxiv

DOI: 10.64898/2025.12.22.25342398

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