Clinical Photon-Counting CT in Neuroradiology: A Real-World Paired Comparison with Conventional Energy-Integrating CT.
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Photon-counting CT offers higher spatial resolution, improved contrast-to-noise efficiency, and spectral imaging, but its performance against heterogeneous EID-CT systems in routine use remains incompletely characterized. We compared image quality, pathology conspicuity, and radiation dose betwee...