Tailoring the Mass Density of 3D Printing Materials for Accurate X-ray Imaging Simulation by Controlled Underfilling for Radiographic Phantoms

AMM Ahmed, M Buschmann, L Breyer, C Kuntner… - Polymers, 2024 - mdpi.com
Additive manufacturing and 3D printing allow for the design and rapid production of
radiographic phantoms for X-ray imaging, including CT. These are used for numerous …

Synthetic breast phantoms from patient based eigenbreasts

GM Sturgeon, S Park, WP Segars, JY Lo - Medical physics, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose The limited number of 3D patient‐based breast phantoms available could be
augmented by synthetic breast phantoms in order to facilitate virtual clinical trials (VCTs) …

Model observer for assessing digital breast tomosynthesis for multi-lesion detection in the presence of anatomical noise

G Wen, MK Markey, TM Haygood… - Physics in Medicine & …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract Model observers are widely used in task-based assessments of medical image
quality. The presence of multiple abnormalities in a single set of images, such as in …

Virtual assessment of stereoscopic viewing of digital breast tomosynthesis projection images

G Wen, H Chang, J Reinhold, JY Lo… - Journal of Medical …, 2018 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) acquires a series of projection images from different
angles as an x-ray source rotates around the breast. Such imaging geometry lends DBT …

Digital breast tomosynthesis for detecting multifocal and multicentric breast cancer: influence of acquisition geometry on model observer performance in breast …

G Wen, S Park, MK Markey - Medical Imaging 2017: Image …, 2017 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Multifocal and multicentric breast cancer (MFMC), ie, the presence of two or more tumor foci
within the same breast, has an immense clinical impact on treatment planning and survival …

Multi-signal detection and parameter estimation fusion with an improved utility function

W Zhu, H Zhu - Digital Signal Processing, 2020 - Elsevier
Joint detection and parameter estimation problems arise in a wide range of practical
applications. For the multi-signal case, one needs to not only determine the presence of …