Publications Roundup: Summer/Fall 2024

The mercury is resting just shy of 80, and yet there's snow in the forecast. The lines between seasons have become blurred, but there's at least one thing you can always count on: some excellent new articles being generated by the CT CIC!

In Abdominal Radiology, "Peripheral liver metastases are more frequently missed than central metastases in contrast-enhanced CT: insights from a 25-reader performance study," (lead author: Scott S Hsieh)

In Acta Radiologica, "Feasibility of thin-slice, low noise images created using multi-kernel synthesis to replace multiple image series in head CT," (lead author: Akitoshi Inoue)

In the American Journal of Neuroradiology, "High-Resolution Head CTA: A Prospective Patient Study Comparing Image Quality of Photon-Counting Detector CT and Energy-Integrating Detector CT," (lead author: Felix E Diehn) and "Optimizing Photon-Counting Detector CT for Imaging Intracranial Aneurysms," (lead author: Kishore Rajendran)

In Diagnostics, "Monoclonal Gammopathy of Clinical Significance (MGCS): A Review and the Role of Imaging," (lead author: Ahmed O El Sadaney)

In the Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics, "Simultaneous high-pitch multi-energy CT pulmonary angiography using a dual-source photon-counting-detector CT: A phantom experiment," (lead author: Jelena M Mihailovic)

In the Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography, "Improved Pulmonary Artery Evaluation Using High-Pitch Photon-Counting CT Compared to High-Pitch Conventional or Routine-Pitch Conventional Dual-Energy CT," (lead author: Mariana Yalon)

In the ​Journal of Thoracic Imaging, "Impact of Photon-counting Detector Computed Tomography on a Quantitative Interstitial Lung Disease Machine Learning Model," (lead author: Chi Wan Koo)

In Medical Physics, "Existence, uniqueness, and efficiency of numerically unbiased attenuation pathlength estimators at low count rates," (lead author: Scott S Hsieh), "AAPM Task Group Report 299: Quality Control in Multi-Energy Computed Tomography," (lead author: Rick R Layman), and "Performance Evaluation of Single- and Dual-contrast Spectral Imaging on a Photon-counting-detector CT," (lead author: Liqiang Ren)

In Radiology: Cardiothoracic Imaging, "Safety Net Reconstruction to Catch Low-Density and Low-Volume Calcifications at Photon-Counting Detector CT Using Virtual Noncontrast Imaging," (lead author: Prabhakar Shantha Rajiah)

In Skeletal Radiology, "Quantitative metrics of bone quality determined at the distal radius using photon-counting CT," (lead author: Anika Dutta)