[Create]

The way "color images" are produced is to map the Hounsfield scale to the visible colour spectrum: i.e. blood red, bone white, steel gray etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hounsfield_units#Value_in_part...

CT machines have this calibrated as standard, DICOM images have the corresponding fields for the values. Any DICOM viewer will do this (i.e. 3D Slicer, ParaView, OsiriX etc.)

As you say, there is nothing new in this, just PR. Medipix also has been around for a while, it's basically a solid state detector with an integrated USB readout on the silicon. Neither has been invented at CERN, its COTS.

[pharrington]

To be more precise, CERN took part in Medipix3's development.

https://medipix.web.cern.ch/medipix3-collaboration-members

Yes, this is a PR release for tech using the Medipix3. If I understand correctly (which I very probably don't since this HN thread is the first time I've heard of this technology), this is analogous to faster/more accurate AI software being developed with some chip company's latest massively parallel processor - representative of real, but nowhere near groundbreaking, technological advancement.

[lars_thomas]

In this case it’s more than HU value LUT though. Photon counting allows per energy bin attenuation to capture more information. It’s cool and promising but costly and not new per se.

[Create]

Agreed. Photon counting has been around in (medical) imaging for ages.