3 papers
physics.med-ph2026
Evaluation of Silicon-Based Photon-Counting CT for Coronary Stenosis Quantification with Realistic Coronary Artery Phantoms
Maria Jose Medrano, Jed Pack, Stephen Araujo +5
Objective: To quantify the impact of high-resolution deep silicon photon-counting CT (dSi-PCCT) on coronary stenosis quantification in anatomically realistic calcified coronary art…
physics.med-ph2026
Liver Metastasis Detection at Reduced Radiation Dose: Diagnostic Evaluation of a Novel Organ-Level Tube Current Modulation Method
Maria Jose Medrano, Sen Wang, Kaylee W. Fang +8
Objective: To evaluate retroOpt, a novel organ-level tube current modulation (TCM) method that minimizes effective radiation dose while preserving diagnostic image quality for live…
physics.med-ph2025
Scout-Dose-TCM: Direct and Prospective Scout-Based Estimation of Personalized Organ Doses from Tube Current Modulated CT Exams
Maria Jose Medrano, Sen Wang, Liyan Sun +5
This study proposes Scout-Dose-TCM for direct, prospective estimation of organ-level doses under tube current modulation (TCM) and compares its performance to two established metho…