Toward improving breast cancer imaging: radiological assessment of propagation-based phase-contrast CT technology

ST Taba, P Baran, S Lewis, R Heard, S Pacile… - Academic radiology, 2019 - Elsevier
… The dependence of quality score on the phase retrieval enlarged with increased distance.
Indeed, by increasing the propagation distance one allows stronger phase-contrast effects to …

Free propagation phase-contrast breast CT provides higher image quality than cone-beam breast-CT at low radiation doses: a feasibility study on human …

S Pacilè, C Dullin, P Baran, M Tonutti, C Perske… - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
… a significant impact in improving breast cancer diagnosis. … 28 a sample-to-detector distance
of 9.31 m was chosen, implying … acquired, equally distributed over an angular range of \(180\) …

Propagation-based phase-contrast CT of the breast demonstrates higher quality than conventional absorption-based CT even at lower radiation dose

ST Taba, BD Arhatari, YI Nesterets, Z Gadomkar… - Academic …, 2021 - Elsevier
… digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) helped to overcome the effectphase-contrast CT
technique for clinical application, in principle (21,22). The existence of a long propagation distance

Propagation-based phase-contrast imaging of the breast: image quality and the effect of X-ray energy and radiation dose

I Gunaseelan, A Amin Zadeh, B Arhatari… - The British Journal of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
… (PB-CT) is a new imaging technique that exploits refractive … PB-CT and absorption-based
CT (AB-CT) for breast imaging … X-ray energy range for PB-CT scans using the imaging setup …

Optimization of pixel size and propagation distance in X-ray phase-contrast virtual histology

S Donato, LMA Peña, D Bonazza… - Journal of …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
… parameters, namely the propagation distance and the pixel … of breast surgery specimens,
scanned with a phase-contrast … (n), responsible for phase effects, is about three orders of …

Phase-contrast breast-CT: optimization of experimental parameters and reconstruction algorithms

S Donato, S Pacile', L Brombal, G Tromba… - World Congress on …, 2019 - Springer
… -ray beam, along with large propagation distance, allows acquiring images with … breast of
the patient. The sample-to-detector distance is 1.6 m that allows to detect phase-contrast effects

Propagation‐based x‐ray phasecontrast tomography of mastectomy samples using synchrotron radiation

TE Gureyev, YI Nesterets, PM Baran, ST Taba… - Medical …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
… of a breast CT imaging facility at the Australian Synchrotron. … in a PB-CT scan with 6-m
propagation distance was equivalent, … incomplete compensation of phase-contrast effects in some …

Image quality comparison between a phase-contrast synchrotron radiation breast CT and a clinical breast CT: a phantom based study

L Brombal, F Arfelli, P Delogu, S Donato, G Mettivier… - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
… a source-to-detector distance of 92.3 cm and a source-to-isocenter distance of 65.0 cm. …
distance, this setup also allows for the exploitation of PhC effects, yielding, upon the propagation

Multiscale X-ray phase-contrast tomography: from breast CT to micro-CT for virtual histology

LMA Peña, S Donato, D Bonazza, L Brombal… - Physica Medica, 2023 - Elsevier
distances. This study demonstrates the optimization of propagation-based phase-contrast
computed tomography (… ) of 1.6 m, which enables the detection of phase-contrast effects. …

Imaging breast microcalcifications using dark-field signal in propagation-based phase-contrast tomography

A Aminzadeh, BD Arhatari… - … on Medical Imaging, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
phase contrast in free-space propagation. Brombal et al. studied the effect of propagation
distance on the image quality in PB-CT … free-space propagation distance that we could obtain …