The utility of breast cone-beam computed tomography, ultrasound, and digital mammography for detecting malignant breast tumors: a prospective study with 212 …

N He, YP Wu, Y Kong, N Lv, ZM Huang, S Li… - European journal of …, 2016 - Elsevier
Breast cone-beam computed tomography (BCBCT) is a flat-panel detector (FPD)-based X-…
images of the breast. The purpose of this study was to investigate the ability to detect breast

Conebeam volume CT breast imaging: Feasibility study

B Chen, R Ning - Medical physics, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
… mammography, the proposed imaging technique with isotropic spatial resolution will potentially
provide significantly better low-contrast detectability of breast tumors and more accurate …

Cone-beam CT for breast imaging: Radiation dose, breast coverage, and image quality

A O'Connell, DL Conover, Y Zhang… - American Journal of …, 2010 - Am Roentgen Ray Soc
… Although the reference standard for early detection of breast cancer is mammography,
which depicts tumors an average of 1.2 cm in diameter [5], the limits of this test are well …

A novel cone beam breast CT scanner: System evaluation

R Ning, D Conover, Y Yu, Y Zhang… - … 2007: physics of …, 2007 - spiedigitallibrary.org
… detectability of small breast tumors compared to the conventional mammography system. …
dynamic breast imaging. In this paper, we report the evaluation of the novel cone beam breast

Evaluation of flat panel detector cone beam CT breast imaging with different sizes of breast phantoms

R Ning, D Conover, X Lu, Y Zhang, Y Yu… - … 2005: Physics of …, 2005 - spiedigitallibrary.org
… and significantly improves the detectability of small breast tumors. However, due to the use
cone beam CT prototype scanner for breast imaging with two different sizes of normal breast

Evaluation of malignant breast lesions in the diagnostic setting with cone beam breast computed tomography (Breast CT): feasibility study

P Seifert, D Conover, Y Zhang, R Morgan… - The Breast …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
… enhanced cone beam breast Computed Tomography ( CT ) in demonstrating malignant breast
… Eighty‐seven subjects had noncontrast breast CT , 42 had contrast‐enhanced breast CT ( …

Breast-conserving therapy: radiotherapy margins for breast tumor bed boost

R Topolnjak, C van Vliet-Vroegindeweij… - International Journal of …, 2008 - Elsevier
breast cancer recurrences appear in the region of the excision cavity (EC). Separate randomized
trials have shown that tumor … to breast cancer treatment using external beam RT is to …

Cone beam computed tomography guidance for setup of patients receiving accelerated partial breast irradiation

EA White, J Cho, KA Vallis, MB Sharpe, G Lee… - International Journal of …, 2007 - Elsevier
… , the risk of microscopic extension of tumor within the surrounding breast is rare (2, 3). …
limited to the primary tumor site (partial breast irradiation) rather than the whole breast, potentially …

[HTML][HTML] Contrast enhancement on cone-beam breast-CT for discrimination of breast cancer immunohistochemical subtypes

J Uhlig, U Fischer, E von Fintel, V Stahnke… - Translational …, 2017 - Elsevier
… -CT (CBBCT) could aid in discrimination of breastbreast lesions identified on contrast-enhanced
CBBCT. Contrast enhancement of malignant breast lesions was standardized to breast

Newer technologies in breast cancer imaging: dedicated cone-beam breast computed tomography

AM O'Connell, A Karellas, S Vedantham… - Seminars in Ultrasound …, 2018 - Elsevier
… Broadly, breast CT can be classified into those where the projection data are … or cone-beam
breast CT (CBBCT) systems where the detector is large enough to cover the entire breast in …