Breast cancer imaging: a perspective for the next decade

A Karellas, S Vedantham - Medical physics, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Breast imaging is largely indicated for detection, diagnosis, and clinical management of
breast cancer and for evaluation of the integrity of breast implants. In this work, a prospective …

Review of clinical studies and first clinical experiences with a commercially available cone-beam breast CT in Europe

S Wienbeck, J Lotz, U Fischer - Clinical imaging, 2017 - Elsevier
The dedicated cone-beam breast computed tomography (CBBCT) is a new and promising
imaging modality which provides isotropic, 3D images of the breast with high spatial and …

Cone-beam CT for breast imaging: Radiation dose, breast coverage, and image quality

A O'Connell, DL Conover, Y Zhang… - American Journal of …, 2010 - Am Roentgen Ray Soc
OBJECTIVE. The primary objectives of this pilot study were to evaluate the radiation dose,
breast coverage, and image quality of cone-beam breast CT compared with a conventional …

Photon counting spectral CT versus conventional CT: comparative evaluation for breast imaging application

PM Shikhaliev, SG Fritz - Physics in Medicine & Biology, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
Spectral CT systems with photon counting detectors have more advantages compared to
conventional CT systems. However, clinical applications have been hampered for a long …

Dosimetric characterization of a dedicated breast computed tomography clinical prototype

I Sechopoulos, SSJ Feng, CJ D'Orsi - Medical physics, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: To investigate the glandular dose magnitudes and characteristics resulting from
image acquisition using a dedicated breast computed tomography (BCT) clinical prototype …

Characterization of the homogeneous tissue mixture approximation in breast imaging dosimetry

I Sechopoulos, K Bliznakova, X Qin, B Fei… - Medical …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: To compare the estimate of normalized glandular dose in mammography and
breast CT imaging obtained using the actual glandular tissue distribution in the breast to that …

Image quality comparison between a phase-contrast synchrotron radiation breast CT and a clinical breast CT: a phantom based study

L Brombal, F Arfelli, P Delogu, S Donato, G Mettivier… - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
In this study we compared the image quality of a synchrotron radiation (SR) breast computed
tomography (BCT) system with a clinical BCT in terms of contrast-to-noise ratio (CNR) …

Lesion detectability and radiation dose in spiral breast CT with photon-counting detector technology: a phantom study

S Shim, N Saltybaeva, N Berger, M Marcon… - Investigative …, 2020 - journals.lww.com
Objectives The aim of the article was to evaluate the lesion detectability, image quality, and
radiation dose of a dedicated clinical spiral breast computed tomography (CT) system …

Soft tissue imaging with photon counting spectroscopic CT

PM Shikhaliev - Physics in Medicine & Biology, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
The purpose of this work was experimental investigation of photon counting spectroscopic
CT (PCS-CT) imaging of anatomical soft tissue with clinically relevant size. The imaging …

X‐ray scatter correction method for dedicated breast computed tomography

I Sechopoulos - Medical physics, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: To improve image quality and accuracy in dedicated breast computed tomography
(BCT) by removing the x‐ray scatter signal included in the BCT projections. Methods: The …