Breast cancer is a globally widespread disease whose detection has already been
significantly improved by the introduction of screening programs. Nevertheless …

The ability of biomedical imaging data to be of quantitative nature is getting increasingly
important with the ongoing developments in data science. In contrast to conventional …

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 …

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) …

X-ray phase imaging has the potential to dramatically improve soft tissue contrast sensitivity,
which is a crucial requirement in many diagnostic applications such as breast imaging. In …

A quantitative characterization of the soft tissues composing the human breast is achieved
by means of a monochromatic CT phase-contrast imaging system, through accurate …

Rationale and Objectives Propagation-based phase-contrast CT (PB-CT) is an advanced X-
ray imaging technology that exploits both refraction and absorption of the transmitted X-ray …

Abstract Breast Computed Tomography (bCT) is a three-dimensional imaging technique that
is raising interest among radiologists as a viable alternative to mammographic planar …

Objectives To evaluate and compare the image quality of propagation-based phase-contrast
computed tomography (PB-CT) using synchrotron radiation and conventional cone-beam …

Signal-to-noise ratio and spatial resolution are quantitatively analysed in the context of in-
line (propagation based) X-ray phase-contrast imaging. It is known that free-space …