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
… In this work, the authors evaluated the imaging performance of the SYRMA-CT system for
in vivo breast imaging with monochromatic SR in terms of spatial resolution, noise, CNR and …

Phase-contrast x-ray imaging of the breast: recent developments towards clinics

P Coan, A Bravin, G Tromba - Journal of Physics D: Applied …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
… of various phase-contrast imaging techniques for breast imaging are reported. The first … S
2011 Characterization of imaging performance in differential phase contrast CT compared with …

A software platform for phase contrast x-ray breast imaging research

K Bliznakova, P Russo, G Mettivier, H Requardt… - Computers in biology …, 2015 - Elsevier
… the performance of advanced 3D imaging techniques. In the case of breast imaging, the use
of advanced breast … accurate breast dosimetry, to investigate the effect of different imaging

Phase-contrast X-ray imaging of breast

J Keyriläinen, A Bravin, M Fernández… - Acta …, 2010 - journals.sagepub.com
… Equally important, new clinical practices must be developed, and this section is opened
by the description of pioneering work in an in vivo human breast imaging project at a …

X-ray phase-contrast imaging of the breast—advances towards clinical implementation

SD Auweter, J Herzen, M Willner… - … journal of radiology, 2014 - academic.oup.com
… used to perform a number of important feasibility studies of phase-contrast breast imaging. …
to improve soft-tissue contrast and hence clinical performance in mammography and (2) …

The first analysis and clinical evaluation of native breast tissue using differential phase-contrast mammography

M Stampanoni, Z Wang, T Thüring, C David… - … radiology, 2011 - journals.lww.com
… can potentially revolutionize the radiologic approach to breast imaging, because they are …
significant insights into the improved diagnostic performance of the mammoDPC approach. We …

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
phase shift of the X-ray beam shows a large potential for improving the quality of breast images.
… which can lead to deterioration of performance of numerical observer algorithms and to …

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
phase-contrast images of breast tissues monotonically increase with the strength of phase
contrast … The outcomes of this study serve to define the practical imaging conditions and the …

A study on mastectomy samples to evaluate breast imaging quality and potential clinical relevance of differential phase contrast mammography

N Hauser, Z Wang, RA Kubik-Huch… - … radiology, 2014 - journals.lww.com
… that phase contrast and dark-field signals increase the sharpness and delineation of lesions
within breast tissue and may lead to a generally increased quality of radiological images. …

Performance evaluation of coherence-based adaptive imaging using clinical breast data

SL Wang, CH Chang, HC Yang… - IEEE transactions on …, 2007 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
imaging methods reported in the literature, several problems were encountered when we
applied this to breast imagingbreast imaging, as illustrated in Fig. 10. The image shown in Fig. …