3 papers
physics.med-ph2026
Development and Validation of Patient-Specific Monte Carlo Dosimetry for Synchrotron Breast Phase-Contrast CT
Amir Entezam, Ashkan Pakzad, Christopher J. Hall +11
This study develops and validates a patient-specific Monte Carlo (MC) dosimetry framework for propagation-based phase-contrast breast CT (BCT) at the Imaging and Medical Beamline (…
physics.med-ph2025
Towards order of magnitude X-ray dose reduction in breast cancer imaging using phase contrast and deep denoising
Ashkan Pakzad, Robert Turnbull, Simon J. Mutch +14
Breast cancer is the most frequently diagnosed human cancer in the United States at present. Early detection is crucial for its successful treatment. X-ray mammography and digital…
physics.med-ph2024
Comparison of three reconstruction algorithms for low-dose phase-contrast computed tomography of the breast with synchrotron radiation
Sandro Donato, Simone Caputo, Luca Brombal +17
Three different computed tomography (CT) reconstruction algorithms: Filtered Back Projection (FBP), Unified Tomographic Reconstruction (UTR) and customized Simultaneous Algebraic R…