Emma Verelst

Emma Verelst is a doctoral student at the Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, and a Medical Physicist Expert. Her research focuses on photon-counting CT, with applications in stent distinction, lung ventilation analysis, and Xenon gas-enhanced imaging. She is affiliated with the Research Centre for Digital Medicine and actively collaborates on projects involving silicon-based CT detectors and contrast media separation.

• Projects: FWOSB155: Evaluation of regional lung ventilation by Xenon gas-enhanced spectral CT imaging (2023–2027)

Research Output Trends: Emma’s work spans medical physics, radiology, and CT imaging, with emphasis on stent visualization, ventilation modeling, and detector technology. Her studies compare photon-counting CT with conventional methods, addressing motion artifacts, contrast separation, and plaque analysis.

• Key Topics: Photon-counting CT, Stent Imaging, Xenon Gas, Lung Ventilation, CT Phantom Studies, Contrast Media Separation