Dosimetry in x-ray-based breast imaging

DR Dance, I Sechopoulos - Physics in Medicine & Biology, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
The estimation of the mean glandular dose to the breast (MGD) for x-ray based imaging
modalities forms an essential part of quality control and is needed for risk estimation and for …

PITRE: software for phase-sensitive X-ray image processing and tomography reconstruction

RC Chen, D Dreossi, L Mancini, R Menk… - Journal of …, 2012 - journals.iucr.org
Synchrotron-radiation computed tomography has been applied in many research fields.
Here, PITRE (Phase-sensitive X-ray Image processing and Tomography REconstruction) …

The creation of breast lesion models for mammographic virtual clinical trials: a topical review

A Van Camp, K Houbrechts, L Cockmartin… - Progress in …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Simulated breast lesion models, including microcalcification clusters and masses, have
been used in several studies. Realistic lesion models are required for virtual clinical trials to …

Assessing the ability of generative adversarial networks to learn canonical medical image statistics

VA Kelkar, DS Gotsis, FJ Brooks… - IEEE transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In recent years, generative adversarial networks (GANs) have gained tremendous popularity
for potential applications in medical imaging, such as medical image synthesis, restoration …

Unsupervised polychromatic neural representation for ct metal artifact reduction

Q Wu, L Chen, C Wang, H Wei… - Advances in …, 2023 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Emerging neural reconstruction techniques based on tomography (eg, NeRF, NeAT, and
NeRP) have started showing unique capabilities in medical imaging. In this work, we …

Suitability of low density materials for 3D printing of physical breast phantoms

D Ivanov, K Bliznakova, I Buliev, P Popov… - Physics in Medicine …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Breast physical phantoms are a basic tool for the assessment and verification of
performance standards in daily clinical practice of x-ray breast imaging modalities. They are …

High-Efficiency X-ray Sensing with Recyclable Perovskite–Graphene Heterostructured Transistors

K Shirley, H Tsai, N Cucciniello, J Bird, Q Jia… - ACS Energy …, 2023 - ACS Publications
We present a recyclable perovskite–graphene heterostructure that demonstrates ultrahigh X-
ray detection sensitivities over 108 μC/Gyair· cm2 for medical imaging applications. The high …

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 …

GEANT4 for breast dosimetry: parameters optimization study

C Fedon, F Longo, G Mettivier… - Physics in Medicine & …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
Mean glandular dose (MGD) is the main dosimetric quantity in mammography. MGD
evaluation is obtained by multiplying the entrance skin air kerma (ESAK) by normalized …

Development of breast lesions models database

K Bliznakova, N Dukov, F Feradov, G Gospodinova… - Physica Medica, 2019 - Elsevier
Purpose We present the development and the current state of the MaXIMA Breast Lesions
Models Database, which is intended to provide researchers with both segmented and …