Abstract：
:The inadequate visibility of microcalcifications-small calcium deposits that cue radiologists to early stages of cancer-is a major limitation in current designs of dedicated breast computed tomography (bCT). This limitation has previously been attributed to the constituent components, spatial resolution, and utilized dose. Scattered radiation has been considered an occurrence with low-frequency impacts that can be compensated for in post-processing. We hypothesized, however, that the acquisition of scattered radiation has a far more detrimental impact on clinically relevant features than has previously been understood. Critically, acquisition of scatter leads to the reduced visibility of microcalcifications. This hypothesis was investigated and supported via mathematical derivations and simulation studies. We conducted a series of comparative studies in which four bCT systems were simulated under iso-dose and iso-resolution conditions, characterizing the dependencies of microcalcification contrast on accumulated scatter. Included among the simulated systems is a novel bCT design-narrow beam bCT (NB-bCT)-that captures nearly zero scatter. We find that current bCT systems suffer from significant levels of scatter. As validated in theory, depending on the system and size of microcalcifications, between 25% and over 70% of contrast resolution is lost due to scatter. The results in NB-bCT, however, provide evidence that by removing scatter build-up in projections, the contrast of microcalcifications in a bCT image is preserved, regardless of their size or location in the breast.
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Phys Med Bioljournal_title
Physics in medicine and biologyauthors
Ghazi Pdoi
10.1088/1361-6560/abae07subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2020-12-04 00:00:00pages
235047issue
23eissn
0031-9155issn
1361-6560journal_volume
65pub_type
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