CT dose reduction factors in the thousands using X-ray phase contrast

MJ Kitchen, GA Buckley, TE Gureyev, MJ Wallace… - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
Phase-contrast X-ray imaging can improve the visibility of weakly absorbing objects (eg soft
tissues) by an order of magnitude or more compared to conventional radiographs …

Noise propagation in x-ray phase-contrast imaging and computed tomography

YI Nesterets, TE Gureyev - Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
Three phase-retrieval algorithms, based on the transport-of-intensity equation and on the
contrast transfer function for propagation-based imaging, and on the linearized geometrical …

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 …

Propagation‐based x‐ray phase‐contrast tomography of mastectomy samples using synchrotron radiation

TE Gureyev, YI Nesterets, PM Baran, ST Taba… - Medical …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose Propagation‐based phase‐contrast computed tomography (PB‐CT) is a method for
three‐dimensional x‐ray imaging that utilizes refraction, as well as absorption, of x rays in …

M ultimodal intrinsic speckle-tracking (MIST) to extract images of rapidly-varying diffuse X-ray dark-field

SJ Alloo, KS Morgan, DM Paganin, KM Pavlov - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Speckle-based phase-contrast X-ray imaging (SB-PCXI) can reconstruct high-resolution
images of weakly-attenuating materials that would otherwise be indistinguishable in …

Dark-field signal extraction in propagation-based phase-contrast imaging

TE Gureyev, DM Paganin, B Arhatari… - Physics in Medicine …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
A method for extracting the dark-field signal in propagation-based phase-contrast imaging is
proposed. In the case of objects consisting predominantly of a single material, or several …

Imaging breast microcalcifications using dark-field signal in propagation-based phase-contrast tomography

A Aminzadeh, BD Arhatari… - … on Medical Imaging, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Breast microcalcifications are an important primary radiological indicator of breast cancer.
However, microcalcification classification and diagnosis may be still challenging for …

Investigation of the imaging quality of synchrotron-based phase-contrast mammographic tomography

TE Gureyev, SC Mayo, YI Nesterets… - Journal of Physics D …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
We report the results of a systematic study of phase-contrast x-ray computed tomography in
the propagation-based and analyser-based modes using specially designed phantoms and …

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 …

Experimental comparison of grating-and propagation-based hard X-ray phase tomography of soft tissue

S Lang, I Zanette, M Dominietto, M Langer… - Journal of Applied …, 2014 - pubs.aip.org
When imaging soft tissues with hard X-rays, phase contrast is often preferred over
conventional attenuation contrast due its superior sensitivity. However, it is unclear which of …