title: White Paper of the Society of Computed Body Tomography and Magnetic Resonance on Dual-Energy CT, Part 1: Technology and Terminology.
abstract: This is the first of a series of 4 white papers that represent Expert Consensus Documents developed by the Society of Computed Body Tomography and Magnetic Resonance through its task force on dual-energy computed tomography (DECT). This article, part 1, describes the fundamentals of the physical basis for DECT and the technology of DECT and proposes uniform nomenclature to account for differences in proprietary terms among manufacturers.
authors.affiliation: From the *Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO; †Department of Radiology, University of Michigan Hospitals, Ann Arbor, MI; ‡Department of Radiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL; §Department of Radiology, University Hospital of Basel, Basel, Switzerland; ∥Department of Radiology, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX; ¶Division of Cardiovascular Imaging, Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC; #Department of Radiology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI; **Division of Abdominal Imaging, Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA; ††Department of Radiology, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA; ‡‡Department of Radiology, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, MN; and §§Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA.
authors.forename: Marilyn J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Siegel
authors.forename: Ravi K
authors.initials: RK
authors.lastname: Kaza
authors.forename: David N
authors.initials: DN
authors.lastname: Bolus
authors.forename: Daniel T
authors.initials: DT
authors.lastname: Boll
authors.forename: Neil M
authors.initials: NM
authors.lastname: Rofsky
authors.forename: Carlo N
authors.initials: CN
authors.lastname: De Cecco
authors.forename: W Dennis
authors.initials: WD
authors.lastname: Foley
authors.forename: Desiree E
authors.initials: DE
authors.lastname: Morgan
authors.forename: U Joseph
authors.initials: UJ
authors.lastname: Schoepf
authors.forename: Dushyant V
authors.initials: DV
authors.lastname: Sahani
authors.forename: William P
authors.initials: WP
authors.lastname: Shuman
authors.forename: Terri J
authors.initials: TJ
authors.lastname: Vrtiska
authors.forename: Benjamin M
authors.initials: BM
authors.lastname: Yeh
authors.forename: Lincoln L
authors.initials: LL
authors.lastname: Berland
mesh_terms: D001709:Biotechnology / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000592:standards; D004867:Equipment Design; D019544:Equipment Failure Analysis; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D015900:Radiography, Dual-Energy Scanned Projection / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000592:standards*; D009626:Terminology as Topic; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000592:standards*; D014481:United States