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This study aims to propose a single model for cross-scanner LDCT image denoising.\n                    <jats:italic>Approach.<\/jats:italic>\n                    We propose a unified-distribution residual diffusion model (UDRDiff) for generalizable LDCT image denoising across diverse scanners. Specifically, we design a unified-distribution degeneration operator to progressively map cross-scanner LDCT data into a shared latent distribution by incorporating an input-suppression term, effectively mitigating inter-scanner discrepancies. To enhance the interpretability of the forward diffusion process, we introduce a residual diffusion mechanism that establishes a deterministic degradation process from normal-dose CT to LDCT, which can clearly guide the reverse image restoration process and significantly accelerate the sampling process.\n                    <jats:italic>Main results.<\/jats:italic>\n                    We extensively validated our method on datasets from four scanners, covering two manufacturers and two anatomical regions. Experimental results demonstrate that our method outperforms existing approaches across all test scenarios. Taking two representative test sets as examples: on the Scanner 1 (abdominal images) dataset, our method improves peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR) from 43.0765 dB to 43.5324 dB and structural similarity index (SSIM) from 0.9634 to 0.9660; on the Scanner 4 (head images) dataset, PSNR improves from 44.3582 dB to 45.9250 dB and SSIM from 0.9545 to 0.9744. 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