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
Rationale and Objectives This study employs clinical/radiological evaluation in establishing
the optimum imaging conditions for breast cancer imaging using the X-ray propagation …

Optimization of propagation-based x-ray phase-contrast tomography for breast cancer imaging

P Baran, S Pacilè, YI Nesterets, SC Mayo… - Physics in Medicine …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
The aim of this study was to optimise the experimental protocol and data analysis for in-vivo
breast cancer x-ray imaging. Results are presented of the experiment at the SYRMEP …

Clinical application of low-dose phase contrast breast CT: methods for the optimization of the reconstruction workflow

S Pacile, F Brun, C Dullin, YI Nesterets… - Biomedical optics …, 2015 - opg.optica.org
Results are presented of a feasibility study of three-dimensional X-ray tomographic
mammography utilising in-line phase contrast. Experiments were performed at SYRMEP …

A feasibility study of X-ray phase-contrast mammographic tomography at the Imaging and Medical beamline of the Australian Synchrotron

YI Nesterets, TE Gureyev, SC Mayo… - Journal of …, 2015 - journals.iucr.org
Results are presented of a recent experiment at the Imaging and Medical beamline of the
Australian Synchrotron intended to contribute to the implementation of low-dose high …

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
Phase-contrast imaging techniques address the issue of poor soft-tissue contrast
encountered in traditional X-ray imaging. This can be accomplished with the propagation …

Feasibility study of phase-contrast cone beam CT imaging systems

W Cai - 2009 - urresearch.rochester.edu
Attenuation-based x-ray imaging techniques have been developed for many decades. One
of the state-of-the-art imaging modalities is the cone beam computed tomography (CBCT) …

Imaging performance of phase-contrast breast computed tomography with synchrotron radiation and a CdTe photon-counting detector

A Sarno, G Mettivier, B Golosio, P Oliva, G Spandre… - Physica Medica, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract Purpose Within the SYRMA-CT collaboration based at the ELETTRA synchrotron
radiation (SR) facility the authors investigated the imaging performance of the phase …

High-resolution breast tomography at high energy: a feasibility study of phase contrast imaging on a whole breast

A Sztrókay, PC Diemoz, T Schlossbauer… - Physics in Medicine …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
Previous studies on phase contrast imaging (PCI) mammography have demonstrated an
enhancement of breast morphology and cancerous tissue visualization compared to …

Phase-contrast breast CT: the effect of propagation distance

L Brombal, S Donato, D Dreossi, F Arfelli… - Physics in Medicine …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
X-ray phase imaging has the potential to dramatically improve soft tissue contrast sensitivity,
which is a crucial requirement in many diagnostic applications such as breast imaging. In …

[HTML][HTML] Evaluation of phase-contrast CT of breast tissue at conventional x-ray sources–presentation of selected findings

S Grandl, M Willner, J Herzen, D Mayr… - … für medizinische Physik, 2013 - Elsevier
Background Grating-based phase contrast computed tomography (PC-CT) at synchrotron
radiation sources has been shown to provide improved visualization of breast tumors …