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Katie Kern1, Lubna Peerzada1, Laila Hassan1, Carolyn MacDonald1.
Abstract
A system using a wide-slot beam and simple antiscatter grids or slots has been designed to provide a localized map of tissue type that could be overlaid on the simultaneous conventional transmission image to provide an inexpensive, low dose adjunct to conventional screening mammography. Depth information is obtainable from the stereoscopic viewing angles. The system was demonstrated to produce observable contrast between adipose tissue and a phantom chosen to mimic carcinoma at an exposure comparable with screening mammography. Imaging data was collected over a range of system parameters to optimize contrast and to allow verification of simulation modeling.Entities:
Keywords: coherent scatter; diffraction; mammography; tissue typing; x-ray
Year: 2016 PMID: 27610395 PMCID: PMC4999495 DOI: 10.1117/1.JMI.3.3.030501
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Med Imaging (Bellingham) ISSN: 2329-4302