title: CT technology overview: 64-slice and beyond.
abstract: Sixty-four-slice CT typified the dramatic race in technical development in radiology. Featuring high spatial resolution with 0.5-mm thin slices and 0.3-second gantry revolution times, it has become state-of-the-art technology in CT imaging shortly after its clinical introduction. Three-dimensional tube modulation together with adaptive x-ray shutters led to significant dose reduction to the patients while improving image quality because of implementation of optimized reconstruction algorithms. The latest innovations-new detector materials, dual-layer detector, dual-source and dynamic volume CT-represent the pinnacles in CT imaging, pursuing different directions to further clinical applications of CT.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Campus Charité Mitte, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Charitéplatz 1, 10117 Berlin, Germany. rogalla@charite.de
authors.forename: Patrik
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Rogalla
authors.forename: Christian
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Kloeters
authors.forename: Patrick A
authors.initials: PA
authors.lastname: Hein
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D016477:Artifacts; D003287:Contrast Media; D004867:Equipment Design; D006801:Humans; D021621:Imaging, Three-Dimensional; D011829:Radiation Dosage; D011856:Radiographic Image Enhancement / Q000379:methods; D011857:Radiographic Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted / Q000379:methods; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D013673:Technology Assessment, Biomedical; D015898:Tomography Scanners, X-Ray Computed; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed / Q000379:methods*
chemical_list: D003287:Contrast Media