A significant improvement over conventional attenuation-based X-ray imaging, which lacks
contrast in small objects and soft biological tissues, is obtained by introducing phase …

Breast cancer is a serious threat worldwide and is the number two killer of women in the
United States. The key to successful management is screening and early detection. What …

Mammography is the primary imaging tool for screening and diagnosis of human breast
cancers, but∼ 10–20% of palpable tumors are not detectable on mammograms and only …

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 …

Phase-based approaches can revolutionize X-ray imaging and remove its main limitation:
poor image contrast arising from low attenuation differences. They exploit the unit decrement …

The measurement of the linear attenuation coefficients of breast tissues is of fundamental
importance in the field of breast x-ray diagnostic imaging. Different groups have evaluated …

X-ray phase-contrast imaging has received growing interest in recent years due to its high
capability in visualizing soft tissue. Breast imaging became the focus of particular attention …

When an X-ray wave traverses an object, its amplitude and phase change, resulting in
attenuation, interference, and refraction, and in phase-contrast X-ray imaging (PCI) these …

Use of cone‐beam computed tomography (CBCT) is becoming more frequent. For proper
reconstruction, the geometry of the CBCT systems must be known. While the system can be …

Breast cancer constitutes about one-quarter of all cancers and is the leading cause of
cancer death in women. To reduce breast cancer mortality, mammographic screening …