With the introduction of screening mammography, the mortality rate of breast cancer has
been reduced throughout the last decades. However, many women undergo unnecessary …

Background Grating-based phase contrast computed tomography (PC-CT) at synchrotron
radiation sources has been shown to provide improved visualization of breast tumors …

This thesis offers an accessible guide to biomedical phase-contrast imaging with over 20
radiographic illustrations. It focuses on research to improve radiography, and particularly …

X-ray phase-contrast imaging has received growing interest in recent years due to its high
capability in visualizing soft tissue. Breast imaging became the focus of particular attention …

Objectives Differential phase contrast and scattering-based x-ray mammography has the
potential to provide additional and complementary clinically relevant information compared …

The first clinical study of phase-contrast mammography (PCM) with synchrotron radiation
was carried out at the Synchrotron Radiation for Medical Physics beamline of the Elettra …

This chapter is dedicated to the clinical compatibility of laboratory-based phase-contrast
mammography. First, we present which hardware changes and optimizations were …

Breast cancer is the most common type of cancer worldwide. Diagnosing breast cancer
relies on clinical examination, imaging and biopsy. A core-needle biopsy enables a …

While the performance of conventional x-ray tube sources often suffers from the broad
polychromatic spectrum, synchrotrons that could provide highly brilliant x-rays are restricted …

We report the results of a systematic study of phase-contrast x-ray computed tomography in
the propagation-based and analyser-based modes using specially designed phantoms and …