David A Bluemke, Prashant Nagpal
Diagn Interv Imaging . 2024 Dec 4:S2211-5684(24)00274-2. doi: 10.1016/j.diii.2024.11.005. Online ahead of print.
Photon counting computed tomography (PCCT) was first successfully applied to humans in 2016 [1]. With a photon-counting detector, X-ray energy is directly converted into electrical energy (rather than light energy).