A comprehensive assessment of physical image quality of five different scanners for head CT imaging as clinically used at a single hospital centre—A phantom study

• Patrizio Barca,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: Department of Medical Physics, St. Orsola-Malpighi University Hospital, Bologna, Italy

  Affiliation Unit of Medical Physics, Pisa University Hospital “Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Pisana”, Pisa, Italy

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• Fabio Paolicchi,

  Roles Investigation, Validation, Visualization

  Affiliation Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy

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• Giacomo Aringhieri,

  Roles Validation, Visualization

  Affiliation Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy

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• Federica Palmas,

  Roles Validation, Visualization

  Affiliation Department of Physics, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy

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• Daniela Marfisi,

  Roles Formal analysis, Software, Validation, Visualization

  Affiliation Unit of Medical Physics, Pisa University Hospital “Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Pisana”, Pisa, Italy

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• Maria Evelina Fantacci,

  Roles Validation, Visualization

  Affiliations Department of Physics, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy, INFN, Pisa section, Pisa, Italy

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• Davide Caramella,

  Roles Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy

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• Marco Giannelli

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: m.giannelli@ao-pisa.toscana.it

  Affiliation Unit of Medical Physics, Pisa University Hospital “Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Pisana”, Pisa, Italy

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4061-0490

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