Publication detail

The SYRMEP Beamline of Elettra: Clinical Mammography and Bio-medical Applications

G. Tromba, R. Longo, A. Abrami, F. Arfelli, A. Astolfo, P. Bregant, F. Brun, K. Casarin, V.Chenda, D. Dreossi, M. Hola, J. Kaiser, L. Mancini, R.H. Menk, E. Quai, E. Quaia, L. Rigon, T. Rokvic, N. Sodini, D. Sanabor, E. Schultke, M. Tonutti, A. Vascotto, F. Zanconati, M. Cova, E. Castelli

Original Title

The SYRMEP Beamline of Elettra: Clinical Mammography and Bio-medical Applications

Type

conference paper

Language

English

Original Abstract

At the SYnchrotron Radiation for MEdical Physics (SYRMEP) beamline of Elettra Synchrotron Light Laboratory in Trieste (Italy), an extensive research program in bio-medical imaging has been developed since 1997. The core program carried out by the SYRMEP collaboration concerns the use of Synchrotron Radiation (SR) for clinical mammography with the aim of improving the diagnostic performance of the conventional technique. The first protocol with patients, started in 2006 has been completed at the end of 2009 and the data analysis is now in progress. Regarding applications different from clinical imaging, synchrotron X-ray computed microtomography (micro-CT) is the most used technique, both in absorption and phase contrast. A new software tool, Pore3D, has been developed to perform a quantitative morphological analysis on the reconstructed slices and to access textural information of the sample under study.

Keywords

mammography, phase contrast, microtomography, quantitative analysis

Authors

G. Tromba, R. Longo, A. Abrami, F. Arfelli, A. Astolfo, P. Bregant, F. Brun, K. Casarin, V.Chenda, D. Dreossi, M. Hola, J. Kaiser, L. Mancini, R.H. Menk, E. Quai, E. Quaia, L. Rigon, T. Rokvic, N. Sodini, D. Sanabor, E. Schultke, M. Tonutti, A. Vascotto, F. Zanconati, M. Cova, E. Castelli

RIV year

2010

Released

1. 7. 2010

Publisher

Springer

ISBN

978-0-7354-0813-5

Book

AIP Conference Proceedings

Edition

1

Pages from

18

Pages to

23

Pages count

6

URL

http://www.springer.com/physics/applied+%26+technical+physics/book/978-0-7354-0813-5

BibTex

@inproceedings{BUT35643,
  author="Jozef {Kaiser} and Markéta {Holá}",
  title="The SYRMEP Beamline of Elettra: Clinical Mammography and Bio-medical Applications",
  booktitle="AIP Conference Proceedings",
  year="2010",
  series="1",
  pages="18--23",
  publisher="Springer",
  isbn="978-0-7354-0813-5",
  url="http://www.springer.com/physics/applied+%26+technical+physics/book/978-0-7354-0813-5"
}