Dual Energy CT in Clinical Practice

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Johnson, Thorsten (Editor), Fink, Christian (Editor), Schönberg, Stefan O. (Editor), Reiser, Maximilian F. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2011.
• Series: Medical Radiology,
• Subjects: Medicine.; Radiology.; Internal medicine.; Angiology.; Cardiology.; Medicine & Public Health.; Imaging / Radiology.; Diagnostic Radiology.; Internal Medicine.

Dual-energy CT is a novel, rapidly emerging imaging technique which offers important new functional and specific information. With implementation of the technology in commercially available scanners, many clinical applications are now feasible. In this book, physicists and specialists from different...

Table of Contents:

• Physical Implementation: Physical Background
• Dual Source CT
• Layer Detector
• Gemstone Detector
• Postprocessing and Visualization
• Vascular System: Head and Neck
• Aorta
• Peripheral Arteries
• Plaque Imaging
• Thoracic Imaging: Lung Perfusion
• Lung Ventilation
• Pulmonary Nodules and Lung Cancer
• Myocardial Perfusion
• Coronary Imaging
• Abdominal Imaging: Liver Imaging
• Kidney Imaging
• Pancreas
• Kidney Stone Differentiation
• Extremities: Tendons and Ligaments
• Gout.