Program Information

	Spectral CT and Breast CT	Thursday
	Imaging Scientific Session	8:00AM - 9:55AM	Room: 103

Moderator 1: Andrew Karellas, University of Massachusetts Medical School
Moderator 2: Lifeng Yu, Mayo Clinic

8:00 AM TH-A-103-1

Investigation of Factors Affecting the Accuracy of a Dual Energy Quantitative CT Method for Estimating Regional Bone Marrow Cellularity A. Shenoy*, M. Goodsitt, J. Shen, M. Schipper, Y. Dewaraja

8:10 AM TH-A-103-2

Initial Accuracy Assessment of a Post-Processing DECT Method for Linear Attenuation Coefficient Estimation On a Commercial Fan Beam CT Scanner J. Evans*, B. Whiting, J. O'Sullivan, D. Politte, P. Klahr, Y. Yu, J. Williamson

8:20 AM TH-A-103-3

Cascaded Systems Analysis of a Silicon-Strip Photon Counting CT System J. Xu*, W. Zbijewski, G. Gang, E. Fredenberg, K. Taguchi, J. Carrino, J. Stayman, J. Siewerdsen

8:30 AM TH-A-103-4

Microcalcification and Mass Detection with a Photon-Counting Si Detector for Low Dose Breast Computed Tomography H. Ding*, H. Cho, F. Masaki, W. Barber, J. Iwanczyk, S. Molloi

8:40 AM TH-A-103-5

Characterization of An Energy-Resolved Photon-Counting Si Strip Detector for Breast CT Imaging H. Cho*, H. Ding, W. Barber, J. Iwanczyk, S. Molloi

8:50 AM TH-A-103-6

Radiation Dose Reduction with Optimal Energy Weighting for a Prototype Energy-Resolved Photon-Counting Si Strip Detector A. Lam Ng*, H. Ding, H. Cho, W. Barber, J. Iwanczyk, S. Molloi

9:00 AM TH-A-103-7

A Pan-Sharpening Approach to Multiresolution Image Fusion for Hybrid Counting/integrating CT D. Rigie*, P. La Riviere

9:10 AM TH-A-103-8

System Optimization of Spectral Breast CT Based On An Energy-Resolved Photon-Counting Si Strip Detector: A Simulation Study H. Cho*, H. Ding, F. Masaki, W. Barber, J. Iwanczyk, S. Molloi

9:20 AM TH-A-103-9

Bowtie Filter Designs for Dedicated Breast CT K. Kontson*, R. Jennings

9:30 AM TH-A-103-10

Improved Segmentation of Low-Contrast Fibroglandular Structures in High-Noise Breast CT Volumes for XCAT Modeling J. Wells*, P. Segars, J. Dobbins

9:40 AM TH-A-103-11

Breast Density Measurement with Cone-Beam CT and MRI: A Postmortem Study H. Ding*, T. Johnson, M. Lin, L. Su, S. Molloi