Emerging research demonstrates the increasing stability of attenuation on clinically relevant VMIs with photon-counting CT and a redefined role of kV that may have implications for longitudinal quantitative CT.
|Articles|July 24, 2017
Radiology Comic: Decorating X-Rays
Author(s)Jon Carter
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