Photon counting was a key talking point at RSNA 2020 reports Imaging Technology News. ITN listed the seven stand-out trends at the virtual conference, commenting that Covid 19 has spotlighted many of the challenges faced by radiologists and forced the question, “how can the industry take the information from this past year and learn from it?”
The view of ITN is that photon counting is going to play a significant role in addressing these challenges as the technology is introduced into the next generation of CT scanners. Photon counting enables low dose, high quality imaging, with reports from ITN’s industry sources that it will “increase the image quality by keeping low dose equivalence compared to currently used CT detectors”.