Advancements towards the implementation of clinical phase-contrast breast computed tomography at Elettra

R Longo, F Arfelli, D Bonazza, U Bottigli… - Journal of …, 2019 - journals.iucr.org
Breast computed tomography (BCT) is an emerging application of X-ray tomography in
radiological practice. A few clinical prototypes are under evaluation in hospitals and new …

Imaging study of a phase-sensitive breast-CT system in continuous acquisition mode

P Delogu, B Golosio, C Fedon, F Arfelli… - Journal of …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
The SYRMA-CT project aims to set-up the first clinical trial of phase-contrast breast
Computed Tomography with synchrotron radiation at the SYRMEP beamline of Elettra, the …

Phase-contrast breast CT: the effect of propagation distance

L Brombal, S Donato, D Dreossi, F Arfelli… - Physics in Medicine …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
X-ray phase imaging has the potential to dramatically improve soft tissue contrast sensitivity,
which is a crucial requirement in many diagnostic applications such as breast imaging. In …

Towards breast tomography with synchrotron radiation at Elettra: first images

R Longo, F Arfelli, R Bellazzini, U Bottigli… - Physics in Medicine …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
The aim of the SYRMA-CT collaboration is to set-up the first clinical trial of phase-contrast
breast CT with synchrotron radiation (SR). In order to combine high image quality and low …

Monochromatic breast computed tomography with synchrotron radiation: phase-contrast and phase-retrieved image comparison and full-volume reconstruction

L Brombal, B Golosio, F Arfelli… - Journal of Medical …, 2019 - spiedigitallibrary.org
A program devoted to performing the first in vivo synchrotron radiation (SR) breast computed
tomography (BCT) is ongoing at the Elettra facility. Using the high spatial coherence of SR …

A feasibility study of X-ray phase-contrast mammographic tomography at the Imaging and Medical beamline of the Australian Synchrotron

YI Nesterets, TE Gureyev, SC Mayo… - Journal of …, 2015 - journals.iucr.org
Results are presented of a recent experiment at the Imaging and Medical beamline of the
Australian Synchrotron intended to contribute to the implementation of low-dose high …

Advantages of breast cancer visualization and characterization using synchrotron radiation phase-contrast tomography

S Pacilè, P Baran, C Dullin, M Dimmock… - Journal of …, 2018 - journals.iucr.org
The aim of this study was to highlight the advantages that propagation-based phase-contrast
computed tomography (PB-CT) with synchrotron radiation can provide in breast cancer …

Imaging performance of phase-contrast breast computed tomography with synchrotron radiation and a CdTe photon-counting detector

A Sarno, G Mettivier, B Golosio, P Oliva, G Spandre… - Physica Medica, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract Purpose Within the SYRMA-CT collaboration based at the ELETTRA synchrotron
radiation (SR) facility the authors investigated the imaging performance of the phase …

Clinical application of low-dose phase contrast breast CT: methods for the optimization of the reconstruction workflow

S Pacile, F Brun, C Dullin, YI Nesterets… - Biomedical optics …, 2015 - opg.optica.org
Results are presented of a feasibility study of three-dimensional X-ray tomographic
mammography utilising in-line phase contrast. Experiments were performed at SYRMEP …

Optimization of propagation-based x-ray phase-contrast tomography for breast cancer imaging

P Baran, S Pacilè, YI Nesterets, SC Mayo… - Physics in Medicine …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
The aim of this study was to optimise the experimental protocol and data analysis for in-vivo
breast cancer x-ray imaging. Results are presented of the experiment at the SYRMEP …