Digital breast tomosynthesis provides significant opportunities in both diagnostic and cancer screening. It gives high quality image and overcomes some inherent limitations of the traditional 2D digital mammography due to tissues overlapping which makes difficult to detect cancers. Unfortunately, the quality of tomographic images is directly related to the radiation dose on the patient and it is significantly affected by the parameters set by the technician during the mammographic exam. Normally, breast tomosynthesis provides a little increase in radiation dose with respect 2D mammography. The aim of this study is to investigate the relation between the radiation dose on the patient and the resulting image quality, by comparing the tomosynthesis performance with the 2D digital mammography.
Image Quality Evaluation of Breast Tomosynthesis / Andria, Gregorio; Attivissimo, Filippo; DI NISIO, Attilio; Lanzolla, Anna Maria Lucia; Spadavecchia, Maurizio. - (2016), pp. 143-148. (Intervento presentato al convegno IEEE International Symposium on Medical Measurements and Applications, MeMeA 2016 tenutosi a Benevento, Italy nel May 15-18, 2016) [10.1109/MeMeA.2016.7533723].
Image Quality Evaluation of Breast Tomosynthesis
ANDRIA, Gregorio;ATTIVISSIMO, Filippo;DI NISIO, Attilio;LANZOLLA, Anna Maria Lucia;SPADAVECCHIA, MAURIZIO
2016-01-01
Abstract
Digital breast tomosynthesis provides significant opportunities in both diagnostic and cancer screening. It gives high quality image and overcomes some inherent limitations of the traditional 2D digital mammography due to tissues overlapping which makes difficult to detect cancers. Unfortunately, the quality of tomographic images is directly related to the radiation dose on the patient and it is significantly affected by the parameters set by the technician during the mammographic exam. Normally, breast tomosynthesis provides a little increase in radiation dose with respect 2D mammography. The aim of this study is to investigate the relation between the radiation dose on the patient and the resulting image quality, by comparing the tomosynthesis performance with the 2D digital mammography.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
