Virtual clinical trials in medical imaging: a review

E Abadi, WP Segars, BMW Tsui… - Journal of Medical …, 2020 - spiedigitallibrary.org
The accelerating complexity and variety of medical imaging devices and methods have
outpaced the ability to evaluate and optimize their design and clinical use. This is a …

A review of breast tomosynthesis. Part I. The image acquisition process

I Sechopoulos - Medical physics, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Mammography is a very well‐established imaging modality for the early detection and
diagnosis of breast cancer. However, since the introduction of digital imaging to the realm of …

Breast tomosynthesis: state-of-the-art and review of the literature

JA Baker, JY Lo - Academic radiology, 2011 - academicradiology.org
Standard analog mammography is a screening success story with the proven capacity to
reduce mortality from breast cancer (1–3). Conventional full-field digital mammography …

Task‐based assessment of breast tomosynthesis: effect of acquisition parameters and quantum noise a

I Reiser, RM Nishikawa - Medical physics, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: Tomosynthesis is a promising modality for breast imaging. The appearance of the
tomosynthesis reconstructed image is greatly affected by the choice of acquisition and …

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 …

Design and application of a structured phantom for detection performance comparison between breast tomosynthesis and digital mammography

L Cockmartin, NW Marshall, G Zhang… - Physics in Medicine …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
This paper introduces and applies a structured phantom with inserted target objects for the
comparison of detection performance of digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) against 2D full …

Evaluation of the technical performance of three different commercial digital breast tomosynthesis systems in the clinical environment

A Rodríguez-Ruiz, M Castillo, J Garayoa, M Chevalier - Physica Medica, 2016 - Elsevier
The aim of this work was to research and evaluate the performance of three different digital
breast tomosynthesis (DBT) systems in the clinical environment (Siemens Mammomat …

Digital breast tomosynthesis: observer performance of clustered microcalcification detection on breast phantom images acquired with an experimental system using …

HP Chan, MM Goodsitt, MA Helvie, S Zelakiewicz… - Radiology, 2014 - pubs.rsna.org
Purpose To investigate the dependence of microcalcification cluster detectability on
tomographic scan angle, angular increment, and number of projection views acquired at …

A virtual trial framework for quantifying the detectability of masses in breast tomosynthesis projection data

S Young, PR Bakic, KJ Myers, RJ Jennings… - Medical …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: Digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) is a promising breast cancer screening tool that
has already begun making inroads into clinical practice. However, there is ongoing debate …

Digital breast tomosynthesis: Image acquisition principles and artifacts

PS Sujlana, M Mahesh, S Vedantham, SC Harvey… - Clinical imaging, 2019 - Elsevier
Digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) is a new technology that is being used more frequently
for both breast cancer screening and diagnostic purposes and its utilization is likely to …