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 …

Performance evaluation of digital breast tomosynthesis systems: physical methods and experimental data

NW Marshall, H Bosmans - Physics in Medicine & Biology, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) has become a well-established breast imaging
technique, whose performance has been investigated in many clinical studies, including a …

Report on G4‐Med, a Geant4 benchmarking system for medical physics applications developed by the Geant4 Medical Simulation Benchmarking Group

P Arce, D Bolst, MC Bordage, JMC Brown… - Medical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Background Geant4 is a Monte Carlo code extensively used in medical physics for a wide
range of applications, such as dosimetry, micro‐and nanodosimetry, imaging, radiation …

Patient‐derived heterogeneous breast phantoms for advanced dosimetry in mammography and tomosynthesis

M Caballo, C Rabin, C Fedon… - Medical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Background Understanding the magnitude and variability of the radiation dose absorbed by
the breast fibroglandular tissue during mammography and digital breast tomosynthesis …

[HTML][HTML] Deep learning reconstruction of digital breast tomosynthesis images for accurate breast density and patient-specific radiation dose estimation

J Teuwen, N Moriakov, C Fedon, M Caballo… - Medical image …, 2021 - Elsevier
The two-dimensional nature of mammography makes estimation of the overall breast density
challenging, and estimation of the true patient-specific radiation dose impossible. Digital …

Joint AAPM Task Group 282/EFOMP Working Group Report: Breast dosimetry for standard and contrast‐enhanced mammography and breast tomosynthesis

I Sechopoulos, DR Dance, JM Boone… - Medical …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Currently, there are multiple breast dosimetry estimation methods for mammography and its
variants in use throughout the world. This fact alone introduces uncertainty, since it is often …

GEANT4 Monte Carlo simulations for virtual clinical trials in breast X-ray imaging: Proof of concept

F di Franco, A Sarno, G Mettivier, AM Hernandez… - Physica Medica, 2020 - Elsevier
Virtual clinical trials (VCT) are in-silico reproductions of medical examinations, which adopt
digital models of patients and simulated devices. They are intended to produce clinically …

[HTML][HTML] X-ray dosimetry in breast cancer screening: 2D and 3D mammography

S Di Maria, S Vedantham, P Vaz - European Journal of Radiology, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract According to the World Health Organization (WHO), at the end of 2020, 7.8 million
women alive were diagnosed with breast cancer in the past 5 years, making it the world's …

[HTML][HTML] Homogeneous vs. patient specific breast models for Monte Carlo evaluation of mean glandular dose in mammography

A Sarno, G Mettivier, F Di Lillo, K Bliznakova… - Physica Medica, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract Purpose To compare, via Monte Carlo simulations, homogeneous and non-
homogenous breast models adopted for mean glandular dose (MGD) estimates in …

Fibroglandular tissue distribution in the breast during mammography and tomosynthesis based on breast CT data: A patient‐based characterization of the breast …

C Fedon, M Caballo, E García, O Diaz… - Medical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose To develop a patient‐based breast density model by characterizing the
fibroglandular tissue distribution in patient breasts during compression for mammography …