Digital mammography: what do we and what don't we know?

U Bick, F Diekmann - European radiology, 2007 - Springer
High-quality full-field digital mammography has been available now for several years and is
increasingly used for both diagnostic and screening mammography. A number of different …

Breast phantoms for 2D digital mammography with realistic anatomical structures and attenuation characteristics based on clinical images using 3D printing

S Schopphoven, P Cavael, K Bock… - Physics in Medicine …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Breast phantoms for 2D digital mammography with realistic anatomical structures and
attenuation characteristics based on clinical images using 3D printing - IOPscience This site …

Image quality assessment in digital mammography: part II. NPWE as a validated alternative for contrast detail analysis

P Monnin, NW Marshall, H Bosmans… - Physics in Medicine …, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
Assessment of image quality for digital x-ray mammography systems used in European
screening programs relies mainly on contrast-detail CDMAM phantom scoring and requires …

Digital zoom of the full-field digital mammogram versus magnification mammography: a systematic review

M Øynes, B Strøm, B Tveito, B Hafslund - European Radiology, 2020 - Springer
Objectives To summarise and compare the performance of magnification mammography
and digital zoom utilising a full-field digital mammography (FFDM) system in the detection …

Information capacity of positron emission tomography scanners

C Michail, G Karpetas, N Kalyvas, I Valais, I Kandarakis… - Crystals, 2018 - mdpi.com
Background: The aim of the present study was to assess the upper information content
bound of positron emission tomography (PET) images, by means of the information capacity …

Figure of image quality and information capacity in digital mammography

CM Michail, NE Kalyvas, IG Valais… - BioMed Research …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Objectives. In this work, a simple technique to assess the image quality characteristics of the
postprocessed image is developed and an easy to use figure of image quality (FIQ) is …

Monte Carlo studies on the influence of focal spot size and intensity distribution on spatial resolution in magnification mammography

M Koutalonis, H Delis, G Spyrou… - Physics in Medicine …, 2008 - iopscience.iop.org
Magnification is a special technique applied in mammography in cases where breast
complaints have already been noticed, aiming to examine a specific area of the breast …

Does digital mammography in a decentralized breast cancer screening program lead to screening performance parameters comparable with film-screen …

C Van Ongeval, A Van Steen, G Vande Putte… - European …, 2010 - Springer
Objective: To evaluate if the screening performance parameters of digital mammography
(DM) in a decentralized screening organization were comparable with film-screen …

Clinical image quality criteria for full field digital mammography: a first practical application

C Van Ongeval, A Van Steen, C Geniets… - Radiation protection …, 2008 - academic.oup.com
In order to quantify the clinical quality of full-field digital mammography, a set of image
quality parameters is developed. The set consisted of 12 image quality criteria and 8 …

Evaluating the Figure of Merit in mammography utilizing Monte Carlo simulation

H Delis, G Spyrou, L Costaridou, G Tzanakos… - Nuclear Instruments and …, 2007 - Elsevier
Mammography represents the most powerful screening tool available for the early detection
of breast cancer. As a screening technique, it addresses to asymptomatic women and …