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X-ray phase-contrast tomography : underlying physics and developments for breast imaging / / Luca Brombal



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Autore: Brombal Luca Visualizza persona
Titolo: X-ray phase-contrast tomography : underlying physics and developments for breast imaging / / Luca Brombal Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer, , [2020]
©2020
Edizione: 1st ed. 2020.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (XIII, 140 p. 68 illus., 53 illus. in color.)
Disciplina: 616.9944906
Soggetto topico: Breast - Cancer - Tomography
Breast - Cancer - Diagnosis
Breast Neoplasms - diagnostic imaging
Nota di contenuto: Introduction -- Physics of Propagation-based X-ray Tomography -- Propagation-based Breast CT and SYRMA-3D Project -- Detector and Pre-processing -- Experimental Optimization of Propagation-based BCT -- Three-Dimensional Imaging: A Clinically Oriented Focus -- Do We Need Clinical Applications in Synchrotrons? -- Conclusions.
Sommario/riassunto: X-ray imaging is a corner stone of breast cancer diagnosis. By exploiting the phase shift of X-rays rather than their attenuation, phase-contrast tomography has the potential to dramatically increase the visibility of small and low contrast features, thus leading to better diagnosis. This thesis presents research on the first synchrotron-based project developing a clinical phase-contrast breast computed tomography (CT) setup at Elettra, the Italian Syncrotron Radiation Facility. This book includes a comprehensive theoretical background on propagation-based phase-contrast imaging, exploring and extending the most recent image formation models. Along with theory, many practical implementation and optimization issues, ranging from detector-specific processing to setup geometry, are tackled on the basis of a large number of experimental evidences. Most of the modelling results and data analysis have general validity, being a valuable framework for optimization of phase-contrast setups. Results obtained at synchrotron are also compared with "real world" laboratory sources: both a first-of-its-kind comparison with one of the few hospital breast CT systems and a state-of-the-art implementation of monochromatic phase-contrast micro-tomography with a conventional rotating anode source are presented. On a more general level, this work sheds a light on the importance of synchrotron-based clinical programs, which are key to trigger the long-anticipated transition of phase-contrast imaging from synchrotrons to hospitals. .
Titolo autorizzato: X-ray phase-contrast tomography  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 3-030-60433-0
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
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Serie: Springer theses.