Atwi, Noah E. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6207-9311
Smith, David L.
Flores, Carson D.
Dharaiya, Ekta
Danrad, Raman
Kambadakone, Avinash
Toshav, Aran M. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8588-7178
Article History
First Online: 19 September 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
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: None.
: Author ED is an employee of Philips Healthcare, which developed the DECT implementation used in this study. Author AT is a member of the Philips Healthcare speaker’s bureau. Data were analyzed and controlled by author NA; no data were analyzed or controlled by the authors ED or AT. LSU Health Sciences Center Department of Radiology has a research agreement with Philips Healthcare; however, no funding was provided for this project.
: A retrospective imaging review with waiver of informed consent was approved by the institutional review board. The study was compliant with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act.
: Dual-energy CT acquisition in obese patients is often limited due to effects of photon starvation, which has hindered its clinical application; this study provides evidence that single-source spectral detector implementations of DECT are not susceptible to this limitation.
: No habitus threshold should keep a patient from undergoing imaging of the abdomen on a single-source, spectral detector implementation of DECT if it would provide an advantage to patient care.