Editorial comment: cone-beam and phase contrast CT: new horizons in breast imaging?

A Boss - European radiology, 2018 - Springer
Abstract This Editorial Comment refers to the articles “Contrast-enhanced cone-beam breast-
CT (CBBCT): clinical performance compared to mammography and MRI” by Wienbeck S et …

Contrast-enhanced cone-beam breast-CT (CBBCT): clinical performance compared to mammography and MRI

S Wienbeck, U Fischer, S Luftner-Nagel, J Lotz… - European …, 2018 - Springer
Objectives To evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of contrast-enhanced (CE) cone-beam
breast computed tomography (CBBCT) in dense breast tissue and compare it to non …

Emerging Clinical Applications for Cone Beam Breast CT: Changing the Breast Imaging Paradigm

K Siddall, X Zhang, A O'Connell - Current Breast Cancer Reports, 2024 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review Since its approval by the Unites States Food and Drug
Administration (FDA) in 2015, cone-beam breast computed tomography (CBBCT) has …

Pre-and post-contrast versus post-contrast cone-beam breast CT: can we reduce radiation exposure while maintaining diagnostic accuracy?

J Uhlig, U Fischer, L Biggemann, J Lotz… - European Radiology, 2019 - Springer
Objectives To evaluate whether post-contrast cone-beam breast CT (CBBCT) alone is
comparable to the current standard of combined pre-and post-contrast CBBCT regarding …

Review of clinical studies and first clinical experiences with a commercially available cone-beam breast CT in Europe

S Wienbeck, J Lotz, U Fischer - Clinical imaging, 2017 - Elsevier
The dedicated cone-beam breast computed tomography (CBBCT) is a new and promising
imaging modality which provides isotropic, 3D images of the breast with high spatial and …

Dedicated breast CT: State of the art—Part II. Clinical application and future outlook

Y Zhu, AM O'Connell, Y Ma, A Liu, H Li, Y Zhang… - European …, 2022 - Springer
Dedicated breast CT is being increasingly used for breast imaging. This technique provides
images with no compression, removal of tissue overlap, rapid acquisition, and available …

Free propagation phase-contrast breast CT provides higher image quality than cone-beam breast-CT at low radiation doses: a feasibility study on human …

S Pacilè, C Dullin, P Baran, M Tonutti, C Perske… - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
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 …

Phantom study for volume-of-interest breast imaging using differential phase contrast cone beam CT (DPC-CBCT)

J Liu, R Ning, W Cai - Medical Imaging 2013: Physics of …, 2013 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Differential phase contrast (DPC) imaging is reported to be able to deliver higher contrast-to-
noise ratio (CNR) compared to attenuation-based x-ray imaging technologies. Due to the …

The role of cone-beam breast-CT for breast cancer detection relative to breast density

S Wienbeck, J Uhlig, S Luftner-Nagel, A Zapf… - European …, 2017 - Springer
Objectives To evaluate the impact of breast density on the diagnostic accuracy of non-
contrast cone-beam breast computed tomography (CBBCT) in comparison to mammography …

[OA244] Monochromatic phase-contrast breast CT: A phantom-based image comparison with a clinical system

C Fedon, L Brombal, M Caballo… - … European Journal of …, 2018 - physicamedica.com
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 …