Breast cancer is a globally widespread disease whose detection has already been
significantly improved by the introduction of screening programs. Nevertheless …

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 …

Disorders of the lungs such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are a major
cause of chronic morbidity and mortality and the third leading cause of death in the world …

Objectives Grating-interferometry-based mammography (GIM) might facilitate breast cancer
detection, as several research works have demonstrated in a pre-clinical setting, since it is …

Accounting for about 1.5 million deaths annually, lung cancer is the prevailing cause of
cancer deaths worldwide, mostly associated with long-term smoking effects. Numerous …

Background Many clinically relevant fractures are occult on conventional radiographs and
therefore challenging to diagnose reliably. X-ray dark-field radiography is a developing …

Cracked tooth syndrome (CTS) is a common clinical finding for teeth, it affects about 5% of
all adults each year. The finding of CTS is favored by several risk factors such as …

Breast microcalcifications play an essential role in the detection and evaluation of early
breast cancer in clinical diagnostics. However, in digital mammography, microcalcifications …

Photon-counting detectors provide several potential advantages in biomedical x-ray imaging
including fast and readout noise free data acquisition, sharp pixel response, and high …

Conventional x-ray radiography is a well-established standard in diagnostic imaging of
human bones. It reveals typical bony anatomy with a strong surrounding cortical bone and …