Rationale and objectives Breast cancer represents the leading cause of death from cancer
in women worldwide. Early detection of breast tumours improves the prognosis and survival …

Objectives: Propagation-based phase-contrast computed tomography (PB-CT) is a new
imaging technique that exploits refractive and absorption properties of X-rays to enhance …

Objectives To evaluate and compare the image quality of propagation-based phase-contrast
computed tomography (PB-CT) using synchrotron radiation and conventional cone-beam …

Rationale and Objectives Propagation-based phase-contrast CT (PB-CT) is an advanced X-
ray imaging technology that exploits both refraction and absorption of the transmitted X-ray …

Purpose: Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women in developing and developed
countries and is responsible for 15% of women's cancer deaths worldwide. Conventional …

Purpose: This study aims at establishing the optimum x-ray energy for synchrotron acquired
propagation-based computed tomography (PB-CT) images to obtain highest radiological …

In this study we demonstrate the first direct comparison between synchrotron x-ray
propagation-based CT (PB-CT) and cone-beam breast-CT (CB-CT) on human mastectomy …

A Phase-Contrast breast CT facility based on a high-resolution CdTe photon-counting
detector is under development at Elettra, the Italian Synchrotron Radiation (SR) facility in …

Purpose Propagation‐based phase‐contrast computed tomography (PB‐CT) is a method for
three‐dimensional x‐ray imaging that utilizes refraction, as well as absorption, of x rays in …

Purpose To compare the image quality obtained with a monochromatic phase-contrast
(PhC) breast CT setup based on synchrotron radiation (SR) to that from a clinical breast CT …