Can Realistic Liver Tissue Surrogates Accurately Quantify the Impact of Reduced-kV Imaging on Attenuation and Contrast of Parenchyma and Lesions?

ConclusionLTSL accurately emulated the energy-dependent CT attenuation characteristics of contrast-enhanced liver parenchyma and lesions. The relative improvement in CLP and CNRLP by applying reduced-kV imaging was independent of lesion contrast, phase, and size while the absolute improvement decreased for low-contrast lesions.
Source: Academic Radiology - Category: Radiology Source Type: research