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 …

Physical and digital phantoms for 2D and 3D x-ray breast imaging: Review on the state-of-the-art and future prospects

A Sarno, C Valero, RM Tucciariello, N Dukov… - Radiation Physics and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Breast phantoms are a fundamental asset both in routine quality assurance programs and
for comparing scanner performance in 2D and 3D x-ray breast imaging. They also play an …

Increased dose efficiency of breast CT with grating interferometry

M Rawlik, A Pereira, S Spindler, Z Wang, L Romano… - Optica, 2023 - opg.optica.org
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 …

[HTML][HTML] A quality optimization approach to image Achilles tendon microstructure by phase-contrast enhanced synchrotron micro-tomography

M Pierantoni, I Silva Barreto, M Hammerman… - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
Achilles tendons are mechanosensitive, and their complex hierarchical structure is in part
the result of the mechanical stimulation conveyed by the muscles. To fully understand how …

[HTML][HTML] Recent advances in X-ray imaging of breast tissue: From two-to three-dimensional imaging

L Heck, J Herzen - Physica Medica, 2020 - Elsevier
Breast cancer is a globally widespread disease whose detection has already been
significantly improved by the introduction of screening programs. Nevertheless …

Volumetric high-resolution x-ray phase-contrast virtual histology of breast specimens with a compact laboratory system

L Massimi, T Suaris, CK Hagen… - IEEE transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The assessment of margin involvement is a fundamental task in breast conserving surgery to
prevent recurrences and reoperations. It is usually performed through histology, which …

Sparse2noise: low-dose synchrotron x-ray tomography without high-quality reference data

X Duan, XF Ding, N Li, FX Wu, X Chen, N Zhu - Computers in Biology and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Background Synchrotron radiation computed tomography (SR-CT) holds promise for high-
resolution in vivo imaging. Notably, the reconstruction of SR-CT images necessitates a large …

Imaging breast microcalcifications using dark-field signal in propagation-based phase-contrast tomography

A Aminzadeh, BD Arhatari… - … on Medical Imaging, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Breast microcalcifications are an important primary radiological indicator of breast cancer.
However, microcalcification classification and diagnosis may be still challenging for …

[HTML][HTML] Low dose ct denoising by resnet with fused attention modules and integrated loss functions

L Marcos, J Alirezaie, P Babyn - Frontiers in Signal Processing, 2022 - frontiersin.org
X-ray computed tomography (CT) is a non-invasive medical diagnostic tool that has raised
public concerns due to the associated health risks of radiation dose to patients. Reducing …

[HTML][HTML] Functional lung imaging with synchrotron radiation: Methods and preclinical applications

S Bayat, L Porra, P Suortti, W Thomlinson - Physica Medica, 2020 - Elsevier
Many lung disease processes are characterized by structural and functional heterogeneity
that is not directly appreciable with traditional physiological measurements. Experimental …