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 …

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

Refraction-based x-ray imaging can overcome the fundamental contrast limit of computed
tomography (CT), particularly in soft tissue, but so far has been constrained to high-dose ex …

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 …

X-ray phase-contrast computed tomography (PCCT) using grating interferometry provides
enhanced soft-tissue contrast. The possibility to use standard polychromatic laboratory …

Purpose: Grating interferometry is a state‐of‐the‐art x‐ray imaging approach, which can
acquire information on x‐ray attenuation, phase shift, and small‐angle scattering …

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

For a century, clinical X-ray imaging has visualised only the attenuation properties of tissue,
which fundamentally limits the contrast, particularly in soft tissues like the breast. Imaging …

Grating interferometry is an emerging X-ray imaging technique and has in recent years
become increasingly popular, as it provides two additional and complementary images, a …