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 …

Performance evaluation of digital breast tomosynthesis systems: physical methods and experimental data

NW Marshall, H Bosmans - Physics in Medicine & Biology, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) has become a well-established breast imaging
technique, whose performance has been investigated in many clinical studies, including a …

Average glandular dose in digital mammography and digital breast tomosynthesis: comparison of phantom and patient data

RW Bouwman, RE Van Engen, KC Young… - Physics in Medicine …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
For the evaluation of the average glandular dose (AGD) in digital mammography (DM) and
digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) phantoms simulating standard model breasts are used …

Investigation of test methods for QC in dual-energy based contrast-enhanced digital mammography systems: II. Artefacts/uniformity, exposure time and phantom …

NW Marshall, L Cockmartin… - Physics in Medicine & …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Part II of this study describes constancy tests for artefacts and image uniformity, exposure
time, and phantom-based dosimetry; these are applied to four mammography systems …

[HTML][HTML] Effective lifetime radiation risk for a number of national mammography screening programmes

R Ali, A England, MF McEntee, CE Mercer, A Tootell… - Radiography, 2018 - Elsevier
Background and purpose The performance of mammography screening programmes is
focussed mainly on breast cancer detection rates. However, when the benefits and risks of …

A method for calculating effective lifetime risk of radiation-induced cancer from screening mammography

RM Ali, A England, MF McEntee, P Hogg - Radiography, 2015 - Elsevier
Purpose To propose a method for evaluating the effective lifetime risk of radiation-induced
cancer from screening mammography and to present initial data for the UK National Breast …

Radiation dose from digital breast tomosynthesis screening–A comparison with full field digital mammography

RMKM Ali, A England, AK Tootell, P Hogg - Journal of Medical Imaging and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Objectives To compare Mean Glandular Dose (MGD) and effective dose from digital
breast tomosynthesis (DBT) screening with that from full field digital mammography (FFDM) …

Eye radiation dose from breast cancer screening using full field digital mammography and digital breast tomosynthesis: A phantom study

R Ali, P Hogg - Radiography, 2024 - Elsevier
Introduction The eye lens is recently classified as one of the most radiosensitive tissues by
the International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP), and it has been suggested …

数字乳腺断层融合X 线摄影与常规影像学检查诊断效能的对比研究

汤伟, 李瑞敏, 高毅 - 中国癌症杂志, 2017 - china-oncology.com
背景与目的: 乳腺癌已成为女性最常见的恶性肿瘤, 乳腺X 线摄影新技术的出现对乳腺癌诊断起
重要作用; 该研究旨在对比数字乳腺断层融合X 线摄影(digital breast tomosynthesis, DBT) …

Mathematical modelling of radiation-induced cancer risk from breast screening by mammography

RMKM Ali, A England, C Mercer, A Tootell… - European Journal of …, 2017 - Elsevier
Objectives Establish a method to determine and convey lifetime radiation risk from FFDM
screening. Methods Radiation risk from screening mammography was quantified using …