Authors: Ehsan Abadi, Darrin Byrd, Paul E. Kinahan, Katie Marie Olivas, Ehsan Samei
Affiliation: Duke University, Center for Virtual Imaging Trials, Duke University, Clinical Imaging Physics Group, Department of Radiology, Duke University Health System, University of Washington
Abstract Preview: Purpose: To evaluate the impact of respiratory motion during CT acquisitions on PET image quantification using an integrated PET-CT simulation pipeline.
Methods: A validated CT simulator (DukeSim) ...
Authors: Ehsan Abadi, Njood Alsaihati, Steven T. Bache, Mridul Bhattarai, Cindy Marie McCabe, Francesco Ria, Ehsan Samei
Affiliation: Duke University, Center for Virtual Imaging Trials, Duke University, Duke University Health System, Clinical Imaging Physics Group, Department of Radiology, Duke University Health System
Abstract Preview: Purpose: To compare and contrast alternative methods including reader (in hominum), phantom (in phantasma), in vivo, and in silico methods deployed to assess the performance of photon counting (PCCT) ...
Authors: Dean Darnell, Iyanna M Lewis, Francesco Ria, William Paul Segars
Affiliation: Duke University, Duke University Medical Physics Graduate Program, Center for Virtual Imaging Trials, Carl E. Ravin Advanced Imaging Laboratories and Center for Virtual Imaging Trials, Duke University Medical Center, Duke University Medical Center
Abstract Preview: Purpose: To estimate radiation dose to pediatric patients during standard CT imaging of the chest and abdomen and determine how dose varies with patient age, height and weight and how measurements com...
Authors: Njood Alsaihati, Francesco Ria, Ehsan Samei, Justin B. Solomon, Martina Talarico, Jered Wells
Affiliation: Duke University, Clinical Imaging Physics Group, Department of Radiology, Duke University Health System
Abstract Preview: Purpose: Radiation dose and associated risk in X-ray imaging is principally informed by patient size, further used in Computed Tomography (CT) to achieve prescribed image quality levels through tube c...