1. Investigation of suitable biopsy markers for grating-based phase contrast mammography
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Rahel A. Kubik-Huch, Serafino Forte, Zhentian Wang, Carolina Arboleda, and Marco Stampanoni
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medicine.medical_specialty ,medicine.diagnostic_test ,business.industry ,Mammotome ,Phase contrast microscopy ,Grating ,Imaging phantom ,030218 nuclear medicine & medical imaging ,law.invention ,Chicken breast ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,law ,030220 oncology & carcinogenesis ,Biopsy ,Medicine ,Mammography ,Medical physics ,Radiology ,CLIPS ,business ,Instrumentation ,computer ,Mathematical Physics ,computer.programming_language - Abstract
Phase-contrast mammography is a rising technology where, in addition to X-ray absorption, images show phase and dark-field contrast. Although the use of biopsy markers constitutes a fundamental task in breast examinations, there has not been any investigation concerning appropriate clips for this technology. We studied the suitability of three markers (Tumark, Somatex Medical Technologies; Hydromark, Mammotome; and Mammostar, Mammotome) for this modality on a laboratory source setup using a chicken breast phantom. The first two clips appeared to be innocuous, whereas Mammostar showed the potential that the non-metallic portion only could be used as a marker for this technique.
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- 2017
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