Computed Tomography

The NAEOTOM Alpha®, a newly developed dual-source CT scanner with photon-counting detectors (QuantaMax®), has the potential to address some of the challenges of cCTA. It provides energy-resolved CT data without electronic noise at improved spatial resolution.

A 14-year-old girl presented herself to the emergency department due to a fall onto her outstretched right hand. Radiographs performed revealed only equivocal result. A CT scan was requested for further evaluation, using an ultra-high resolution mode on a photon-counting CT scanner (NAEOTOM Alpha).

Presented by Prof. Edwin Oei from Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, at ECR 2023

A 62-year-old female obese patient, with a history of arterial hypertension and hyperlipidemia, presented to the institutional chest pain unit with typical angina and an extensive cardiovascular risk profile. A coronary CT angiography was performed using a dual source photon-counting detector (PCD) CT (NAEOTOM Alpha®) in ultra-high resolution (UHR) mode.

Presented by Assoc. Prof. Olivier Manintveld, MD, and Prof. Ricardo Budde, MD, Erasmus Medical Center, at ECR 2023, in a Corporate Symposium “Pushing the boundaries of CT imaging with photon-counting technology”.