Nuclear imaging of the breast: translating achievements in instrumentation into clinical use

CB Hruska, MK O'Connor - Medical physics, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Approaches to imaging the breast with nuclear medicine and/or molecular imaging methods
have been under investigation since the late 1980s when a technique called …

Proof of concept for low‐dose molecular breast imaging with a dual‐head CZT gamma camera. Part I. Evaluation in phantoms

CB Hruska, AL Weinmann, MK O'Connor - Medical physics, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: Molecular breast imaging (MBI) is a nuclear medicine technology that uses dual‐
head cadmium zinc telluride (CZT) gamma cameras to image functional uptake of a …

Molecular breast tomosynthesis with scanning focus multi-pinhole cameras

J Van Roosmalen, MC Goorden… - Physics in Medicine & …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Planar molecular breast imaging (MBI) is rapidly gaining in popularity in diagnostic
oncology. To add 3D capabilities, we introduce a novel molecular breast tomosynthesis …

Wavelet domain compounding for speckle reduction in optical coherence tomography

J Xu, H Ou, C Sun, PC Chui, VXD Yang… - … of biomedical optics, 2013 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Visibility of optical coherence tomography (OCT) images can be severely degraded by
speckle noise. A computationally efficient despeckling approach that strongly reduces the …

Simulation study comparing high-purity germanium and cadmium zinc telluride detectors for breast imaging

DL Campbell, TE Peterson - Physics in Medicine & Biology, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
We conducted simulations to compare the potential imaging performance for breast cancer
detection with High-Purity Germanium (HPGe) and Cadmium Zinc Telluride (CZT) systems …

Molecular breast imaging using synthetic projections from high-purity germanium detectors: A simulation study

D Campbell, T Peterson - IEEE transactions on radiation and …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
High-purity germanium (HPGe) gamma cameras are an emerging technology for molecular
breast imaging (MBI) due to their 2-D lateral spatial resolution, depth-of-interaction (DOI) …

[BUKU][B] A High-Purity Germanium Imaging System for Limited-Angle Nuclear Breast Tomography

DL Campbell - 2015 - search.proquest.com
The objective of this work is to design and demonstrate the potential imaging capability of a
breast-specific High-Purity Germanium (HPGe) imaging system. Traditionally, HPGe …