Abstract
Cross sectional imaging plays a paramount role in the diagnosis of pancreatic pathologies. However, detection of early stage pancreatic carcinoma may be challenging due to only very distinct alterations of morphology and contrast material uptake compared to normal pancreatic tissue. But accurate diagnosis in an early stage is vital in this disease. Acute necrotising pancreatitis represents another potentially life-threatening condition where the extend of necrotic areas has been shown to be directly related to mortality. As acute pancreatitis usually goes along with a general oedematous swelling of the organ, difficulties in detecting necrotic areas due to limited soft tissue contrast of CT may occur. Dual Energy CT with its potential to increase soft tissue contrast and display and quantify iodine distribution in different body tissues may be an important step towards superior diagnostic accuracy compared to regular Single Energy CT. This chapter intends to give a practical approach to Dual Energy CT imaging of the pancreas in front of current literature and clinical case presentations
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Bauer, R.W. (2011). Pancreas. In: Johnson, T., Fink, C., Schönberg, S., Reiser, M. (eds) Dual Energy CT in Clinical Practice. Medical Radiology(). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/174_2010_42
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