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While normalized iodine concentration values have been correlated with microenvironmental biophysical changes, obtaining accurate iodine concentrations, particularly at low concentrations remains difficult due to varying spectral CT instrumentation performance. Hybrid spectral CT systems, combining multiple spectral CT instrumentation techniques, address these quantitation insufficiencies by increasing spectral separation but have not been evaluated on a clinically analogous platform. We validate a hybrid spectral CT system, comprised of clinical-grade components, acquiring four distinct effective spectra and applying efficient noise-reducing weighting schemes to compare iodine noise and bias against conventional kVp-Switching (kVp-S). Two tube current levels (50, 350 mA) and three duty cycle ratios (33\/67, 50\/50, 75\/25) were implemented to elucidate radiation dose exposure and kVp-S parameterization impact. 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