Advancements towards the implementation of clinical phase-contrast breast computed tomography at Elettra

R Longo, F Arfelli, D Bonazza, U Bottigli… - Journal of …, 2019 - journals.iucr.org
Breast computed tomography (BCT) is an emerging application of X-ray tomography in
radiological practice. A few clinical prototypes are under evaluation in hospitals and new …

Multi-material spectral photon-counting micro-CT with minimum residual decomposition and self-supervised deep denoising

V Di Trapani, L Brombal, F Brun - Optics Express, 2022 - opg.optica.org
Spectral micro-CT imaging with direct-detection energy discriminating photon counting
detectors having small pixel size (< 100× 100 µm^ 2) is mainly hampered by: i) the limited …

Quantitative characterization of breast tissues with dedicated CT imaging

A Piai, A Contillo, F Arfelli, D Bonazza… - Physics in Medicine …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
A quantitative characterization of the soft tissues composing the human breast is achieved
by means of a monochromatic CT phase-contrast imaging system, through accurate …

Characterization of the acquisition modes implemented in Pixirad-1/Pixie-III X-ray Detector: Effects of charge sharing correction on spectral resolution and image …

V Di Trapani, A Bravin, F Brun, D Dreossi… - Nuclear Instruments and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract X-ray Photon Counting Detectors (XPCDs) with thick semiconductor sensors and
small pixel sizes suffer from a charge-sharing effect which can induce multiple counts from a …

Large-area single-photon-counting CdTe detector for synchrotron radiation computed tomography: a dedicated pre-processing procedure

L Brombal, S Donato, F Brun, P Delogu… - Journal of …, 2018 - journals.iucr.org
Large-area CdTe single-photon-counting detectors are becoming more and more attractive
in view of low-dose imaging applications due to their high efficiency, low intrinsic noise and …

Monochromatic breast computed tomography with synchrotron radiation: phase-contrast and phase-retrieved image comparison and full-volume reconstruction

L Brombal, B Golosio, F Arfelli… - Journal of Medical …, 2019 - spiedigitallibrary.org
A program devoted to performing the first in vivo synchrotron radiation (SR) breast computed
tomography (BCT) is ongoing at the Elettra facility. Using the high spatial coherence of SR …

Protocol for 3D virtual histology of unstained human brain tissue using synchrotron radiation phase-contrast microtomography

JY Lee, S Donato, AF Mack, U Mattheus… - Frontiers in …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
X-ray phase-contrast micro computed tomography using synchrotron radiation (SR PhC-
µCT) offers unique 3D imaging capabilities for visualizing microstructure of the human brain …

Optimization of a customized simultaneous algebraic reconstruction technique algorithm for phase-contrast breast computed tomography

S Donato, L Brombal, LMA Peña, F Arfelli… - Physics in Medicine …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Objective. To introduce the optimization of a customized GPU-based simultaneous algebraic
reconstruction technique (cSART) in the field of phase-contrast breast computed …

A compressed reconstruction network combining deep image prior and autoencoding priors for single-pixel imaging

J Lin, Q Yan, S Lu, Y Zheng, S Sun, Z Wei - Photonics, 2022 - mdpi.com
Single-pixel imaging (SPI) is a promising imaging scheme based on compressive sensing.
However, its application in high-resolution and real-time scenarios is a great challenge due …

Optimization of the energy for breast monochromatic absorption X-ray Computed Tomography

P Delogu, V Di Trapani, L Brombal, G Mettivier… - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
The limits of mammography have led to an increasing interest on possible alternatives such
as the breast Computed Tomography (bCT). The common goal of all X-ray imaging …