PET Attenuation Map Generation for Brain Imaging from Virtual Non-Contrast and Virtual Non-Iodine Images Obtained with Photon Counting CT Scanners

Heba Alrakh, Lutz Tellmann, Omid Nikoubashman +10

This study presents a transformation scheme for converting measured Hounsfield units (HUs) into linear attenuation coefficients (LACs) for 511 keV gamma photons in iodine contrast-…