Frank, M., Gassert, F. T., Urban, T., Willer, K., Noichl, W., Schick, R., Schultheiss, M., Viermetz, M., Gleich, B., De Marco, F., Herzen, J., Koehler, T., Engel, K. J., Renger, B., Gassert, F. G., Sauter, A., Fingerle, A. A., Haller, B., Makowski, M. R., Pfeiffer, D., & Pfeiffer, F. Dark-field chest X-ray imaging for the assessment of COVID-19-pneumonia. Communications medicine, 2(1), 147. (2022) https://doi.org/10.1038/s43856-022-00215-3
Purpose: We show that dark-field imaging has a higher sensitivity for COVID-19-pneumonia than attenuation-based imaging and that the combination of both is superior to one imaging modality alone. Furthermore, a quantitative image analysis shows a significant reduction of dark-field signals for COVID-19-patients.