X-ray phase-contrast technology in breast imaging: principles, options, and clinical application

ST Taba, TE Gureyev, M Alakhras… - American Journal of …, 2018 - Am Roentgen Ray Soc
OBJECTIVE. The purpose of this article is to review different x-ray phase-contrast breast
imaging techniques and their potential application in clinical settings. CONCLUSION. Phase …

[HTML][HTML] Functional lung imaging with synchrotron radiation: Methods and preclinical applications

S Bayat, L Porra, P Suortti, W Thomlinson - Physica Medica, 2020 - Elsevier
Many lung disease processes are characterized by structural and functional heterogeneity
that is not directly appreciable with traditional physiological measurements. Experimental …

[HTML][HTML] 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 …

On the “unreasonable” effectiveness of transport of intensity imaging and optical deconvolution

TE Gureyev, YI Nesterets, A Kozlov, DM Paganin… - JOSA A, 2017 - opg.optica.org
The effectiveness of reconstructive imaging using the homogeneous transport of intensity
equation may be regarded as “unreasonable,” because it has been shown to significantly …

Quantitative micro-porosity characterization using synchrotron micro-CT and xenon K-edge subtraction in sandstones, carbonates, shales and coal

S Mayo, M Josh, Y Nesterets, L Esteban, M Pervukhina… - Fuel, 2015 - Elsevier
Understanding porosity in rock specimens on a range of length scales is critical for
assessment of geophysical properties relevant to petroleum and geothermal resources …

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 …

X-ray phase-contrast ghost imaging using a single-pixel camera

MP Olbinado, DM Paganin, Y Cheng, A Rack - Optica, 2021 - opg.optica.org
Advances in x-ray imaging have enabled breakthroughs in medicine, biology, materials
science, and cultural heritage studies. Three-dimensional visualizations of micrometer-scale …

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 …

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 …

Single-shot x-ray speckle-based imaging of a single-material object

KM Pavlov, H Li, DM Paganin, S Berujon… - Physical Review …, 2020 - APS
We develop a means for speckle-based phase imaging of the projected thickness of a single-
material object, under the assumption of illumination by spatially random time-independent x …