Evaluation of a photon-counting breast tomosynthesis imaging system

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 5745, Issue I, 2005, Pages 572-582

  Maidment, Andrew ^a   Albert, Michael ^a   Thunberg, Stefan ^b   Adelöw, Leif ^b   Blom, Ola ^b   Egerström, Johan ^b   Eklund, Mathias ^b   Francke, Tom ^b   Jordung, Ulf ^b   Kristoffersson, Tomas ^b   Lindman, Karin ^b   Lindqvist, Lars ^b   Marchal, Daniel ^b   Olla, Hans ^b   Penton, Erik ^b   Rantanen, Juha ^b   Solokov, Skiff ^b   Ullberg, Christer ^b   Weber, Niclas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b XCounter AB   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Digital breast tomosynthesis; Digital mammography; Synthetic tomography

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; BIOPSY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DETECTORS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MAMMOGRAPHY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PATIENT TREATMENT; PHOTONS; X RAY ANALYSIS; X RAY CAMERAS;

DIGITAL BREAST TOMOSYNTHESIS; DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY; SYNTHETIC TOMOGRAPHY; X RAY DETECTORS;

IMAGING SYSTEMS;

EID: 23844464591     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.597317     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (6)

1. L. Ma et al., Case-Control Study of Factors Associated with Failure to Detect Breast Cancer by Mammography, J. Natl. Cancer Inst., 1992; 84:81-785
2. L. Niklason et al. Digital tomosynthesis in breast imaging. Radiology 205, 399-406 (1997)
3. J. Dobbins and D. Godfrey, Digital x-ray tomosynthesis: current state of the art and clinical potential. Phys. Med. Biol. 48 (2003) R65-R106
4. S. Thunberg et al., Evaluation of a Photon Counting Mammography System, SPIE Medical Imaging 2002, 4682, 202-208.
5. S. Thunberg et al., Dose reduction in Mammography with Photon Counting Imaging, SPIE Medical Imaging 2004, 5368, 457-465
6. th International Workshop on Digital Mammography, In Press (2005).