Conebeam CT of the head and neck, part 2: clinical applications

AC Miracle, SK Mukherji - American journal of …, 2009 - Am Soc Neuroradiology
Conebeam x-ray CT (CBCT) is being increasingly used for point-of-service head and neck
and dentomaxillofacial imaging. This technique provides relatively high isotropic spatial …

Dedicated breast computed tomography: basic aspects

A Sarno, G Mettivier, P Russo - Medical physics, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
X‐ray mammography of the compressed breast is well recognized as the “gold standard” for
early detection of breast cancer, but its performance is not ideal. One limitation of screening …

Task-based measures of image quality and their relation to radiation dose and patient risk

HH Barrett, KJ Myers, C Hoeschen… - Physics in Medicine …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
The theory of task-based assessment of image quality is reviewed in the context of imaging
with ionizing radiation, and objective figures of merit (FOMs) for image quality are …

Breast cancer imaging: a perspective for the next decade

A Karellas, S Vedantham - Medical physics, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Breast imaging is largely indicated for detection, diagnosis, and clinical management of
breast cancer and for evaluation of the integrity of breast implants. In this work, a prospective …

Development and characterization of an anthropomorphic breast software phantom based upon region‐growing algorithm

PR Bakic, C Zhang, ADA Maidment - Medical physics, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: We present a novel algorithm for computer simulation of breast anatomy for
generation of anthropomorphic software breast phantoms. A realistic breast simulation is …

Dedicated breast CT: State of the art—Part I. Historical evolution and technical aspects

Y Zhu, AM O'Connell, Y Ma, A Liu, H Li, Y Zhang… - European …, 2022 - Springer
Dedicated breast CT is an emerging 3D isotropic imaging technology for breast, which
overcomes the limitations of 2D compression mammography and limited angle …

Methodology for generating a 3D computerized breast phantom from empirical data

CM Li, WP Segars, GD Tourassi, JM Boone… - Medical …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
The initial process for creating a flexible three‐dimensional computer‐generated breast
phantom based on empirical data is described. Dedicated breast computed‐tomography …

Quantifying admissible undersampling for sparsity-exploiting iterative image reconstruction in X-ray CT

JS Jorgensen, EY Sidky, X Pan - IEEE Transactions on Medical …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Iterative image reconstruction with sparsity-exploiting methods, such as total variation (TV)
minimization, investigated in compressive sensing claim potentially large reductions in …

Consensus report of the 2nd International Forum for Liver MRI

A Tanimoto, J Min Lee, T Murakami, A Huppertz… - 2009 - Springer
Discussion at the 2nd Forum for Liver MRI: The International Primovist® User Meeting on the
use of the hepatocyte-specific contrast agent gadolinium-ethoxybenzyl-diethylene triamine …

Photon counting multienergy x‐ray imaging: Effect of the characteristic x rays on detector performance

PM Shikhaliev, SG Fritz, JW Chapman - Medical physics, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: The purpose of this work was to investigate the effect of characteristic x rays on the
performance of photon counting detectors for multienergy x‐ray imaging. X‐ray and CT …