Contrast-enhanced dual energy mammography with a novel anode/filter combination and artifact reduction: a feasibility study

T Knogler, P Homolka, M Hörnig, R Leithner… - European …, 2016 - Springer
Objectives To demonstrate the feasibility of contrast-enhanced dual-energy mammography
(CEDEM) using titanium (Ti) filtering at 49 kVp for high-energy images and a novel artefact …

High energy resolution hyperspectral X-ray imaging for low-dose contrast-enhanced digital mammography

S Pani, SC Saifuddin, FIM Ferreira… - IEEE transactions on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Contrast-enhanced digital mammography (CEDM) is an alternative to conventional X-ray
mammography for imaging dense breasts. However, conventional approaches to CEDM …

Optimization of a dual‐energy contrast‐enhanced technique for a photon‐counting digital breast tomosynthesis system: I. A theoretical model

AK Carton, C Ullberg, K Lindman, R Acciavatti… - Medical …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: Dual‐energy (DE) iodine contrast‐enhanced x‐ray imaging of the breast has been
shown to identify cancers that would otherwise be mammographically occult. In this article …

Single-layer and dual-layer contrast-enhanced mammography using amorphous selenium flat panel detectors

N Allec, S Abbaszadeh, KS Karim - Physics in Medicine & …, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
The accumulation of injected contrast agents allows the image enhancement of lesions
through the use of contrast-enhanced mammography. In this technique, the combination of …

A novel approach to background subtraction in contrast‐enhanced dual‐energy digital mammography with commercially available mammography devices …

A Contillo, G Di Domenico, P Cardarelli… - Medical …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: Contrast‐enhanced digital mammography is an image subtraction technique that
is able to improve the detectability of lesions in dense breasts. One of the main sources of …

K-edge imaging using dual-layer and single-layer large area flat panel imagers

N Allec, S Abbaszadeh, A Fleck… - … on Nuclear Science, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Dual-layer, or stacked, detectors reduce motion artifacts in combined x-ray images, such as
k-edge images, by acquiring low-and high-energy signals simultaneously. In this work we …

Including the effect of motion artifacts in noise and performance analysis of dual-energy contrast-enhanced mammography

N Allec, S Abbaszadeh, CC Scott… - Physics in Medicine & …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
In contrast-enhanced mammography (CEM), the dual-energy dual-exposure technique,
which can leverage existing conventional mammography infrastructure, relies on acquiring …

Phantom study to evaluate contrast‐medium‐enhanced digital subtraction mammography with a full‐field indirect‐detection system

BA Palma, I Rosado‐Méndez, Y Villaseñor… - Medical …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
This phantom study simulates contrast‐medium‐enhanced digital subtraction
mammography (CEDM) and compares subtracted image quality and total mean glandular …

Clinical study of contrast-enhanced digital mammography and the evaluation of blood and lymphatic microvessel density

ME Brandan, JP Cruz-Bastida… - The British Journal of …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Objective: To correlate image parameters in contrast-enhanced digital mammography
(CEDM) with blood and lymphatic microvessel density (MVD). Methods: 18 Breast Imaging …

Three-dimensional dose distribution in contrast-enhanced digital mammography using Gafchromic XR-QA2 films: feasibility study

YS Hwang, YY Lin, YC Cheung, HY Tsai - Radiation Physics and Chemistry, 2014 - Elsevier
This study was aimed to establish three-dimensional dose distributions for contrast-
enhanced digital mammography (CEDM) using self-developed Gafchromic XR-QA2 films …