X-ray phase-contrast technology in breast imaging: principles, options, and clinical application

ST Taba, TE Gureyev, M Alakhras… - American Journal of …, 2018 - Am Roentgen Ray Soc
OBJECTIVE. The purpose of this article is to review different x-ray phase-contrast breast
imaging techniques and their potential application in clinical settings. CONCLUSION. Phase …

SYRMEP Tomo Project: a graphical user interface for customizing CT reconstruction workflows

F Brun, L Massimi, M Fratini, D Dreossi, F Billé… - Advanced structural and …, 2017 - Springer
When considering the acquisition of experimental synchrotron radiation (SR) X-ray CT data,
the reconstruction workflow cannot be limited to the essential computational steps of flat …

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 …

Review of quantitative multiscale imaging of breast cancer

MA Pinkert, LR Salkowski, PJ Keely… - Journal of Medical …, 2018 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Breast cancer is the most common cancer among women worldwide and ranks second in
terms of overall cancer deaths. One of the difficulties associated with treating breast cancer …

Deep efficient end-to-end reconstruction (DEER) network for few-view breast CT image reconstruction

H Xie, H Shan, W Cong, C Liu, X Zhang, S Liu… - IEEE …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Breast CT provides image volumes with isotropic resolution in high contrast, enabling
detection of small calcification (down to a few hundred microns in size) and subtle density …

Optimization of propagation-based x-ray phase-contrast tomography for breast cancer imaging

P Baran, S Pacilè, YI Nesterets, SC Mayo… - Physics in Medicine …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
The aim of this study was to optimise the experimental protocol and data analysis for in-vivo
breast cancer x-ray imaging. Results are presented of the experiment at the SYRMEP …

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) …

Propagation‐based x‐ray phase‐contrast tomography of mastectomy samples using synchrotron radiation

TE Gureyev, YI Nesterets, PM Baran, ST Taba… - Medical …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose Propagation‐based phase‐contrast computed tomography (PB‐CT) is a method for
three‐dimensional x‐ray imaging that utilizes refraction, as well as absorption, of x rays in …

[HTML][HTML] Multiscale biomedical imaging at the SYRMEP beamline of Elettra-Closing the gap between preclinical research and patient applications

C Dullin, F di Lillo, A Svetlove, J Albers, W Wagner… - Physics Open, 2021 - Elsevier
Here we present the specifications and capabilities of the SYRMEP (SYnchrotron Radiation
for MEdical Physics) beamline of the Italian Synchrotron “Elettra” in Trieste. SYRMEP was …

Imaging performance of phase-contrast breast computed tomography with synchrotron radiation and a CdTe photon-counting detector

A Sarno, G Mettivier, B Golosio, P Oliva, G Spandre… - Physica Medica, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract Purpose Within the SYRMA-CT collaboration based at the ELETTRA synchrotron
radiation (SR) facility the authors investigated the imaging performance of the phase …