Dedicated breast CT: state of the art—Part I. Historical evolution and technical aspects

Y Zhu, AM O'Connell, Y Ma, A Liu, H Li, Y Zhang… - European …, 2022 - Springer
Dedicated breast CT is an emerging 3D isotropic imaging technology for breast, which
overcomes the limitations of 2D compression mammography and limited angle …

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 …

Increased dose efficiency of breast CT with grating interferometry

M Rawlik, A Pereira, S Spindler, Z Wang, L Romano… - Optica, 2023 - opg.optica.org
Refraction-based x-ray imaging can overcome the fundamental contrast limit of computed
tomography (CT), particularly in soft tissue, but so far has been constrained to high-dose ex …

[PDF][PDF] A phase-retrieval toolbox for X-ray holography and tomography

LM Lohse, AL Robisch, M Töpperwien… - Journal of …, 2020 - journals.iucr.org
Propagation-based phase-contrast X-ray imaging is by now a well established imaging
technique, which–as a full-field technique–is particularly useful for tomography applications …

[HTML][HTML] Recent advances in X-ray imaging of breast tissue: From two-to three-dimensional imaging

L Heck, J Herzen - Physica Medica, 2020 - Elsevier
Breast cancer is a globally widespread disease whose detection has already been
significantly improved by the introduction of screening programs. Nevertheless …

Multiscale X-ray phase-contrast tomography: from breast CT to micro-CT for virtual histology

LMA Peña, S Donato, D Bonazza, L Brombal… - Physica Medica, 2023 - Elsevier
Phase-contrast imaging techniques address the issue of poor soft-tissue contrast
encountered in traditional X-ray imaging. This can be accomplished with the propagation …

Principles of different x-ray phase-contrast imaging: a review

S Tao, C He, X Hao, C Kuang, X Liu - Applied Sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
Numerous advances have been made in X-ray technology in recent years. X-ray imaging
plays an important role in the nondestructive exploration of the internal structures of objects …

Image quality comparison between a phase-contrast synchrotron radiation breast CT and a clinical breast CT: a phantom based study

L Brombal, F Arfelli, P Delogu, S Donato, G Mettivier… - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
In this study we compared the image quality of a synchrotron radiation (SR) breast computed
tomography (BCT) system with a clinical BCT in terms of contrast-to-noise ratio (CNR) …

Integrating X-ray phase-contrast imaging and histology for comparative evaluation of breast tissue malignancies in virtual histology analysis

S Donato, LM Arana Peña, F Arfelli, L Brombal… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
Detecting breast tissue alterations is essential for cancer diagnosis. However, inherent
bidimensionality limits histological procedures' effectiveness in identifying these changes …

Three-dimensional analysis of human pancreatic cancer specimens by phase-contrast based X-ray tomography–the next dimension of diagnosis

D Pinkert-Leetsch, J Frohn, P Ströbel, F Alves, T Salditt… - Cancer Imaging, 2023 - Springer
Background The worldwide increase of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC), which
still has one of the lowest survival rates, requires novel imaging tools to improve early …