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Using Synchrotron Radiation Microtomography to Investigate Multi-scale Three-dimensional Microelectronic Packages
Published on: April 13, 2016
Microcalcifications of breast tissue: appearance on synchrotron radiation imaging with 6-microm resolution
Keiko Imamura1, Norishige Ehara, Yoichi Inada
1Department of Radiology, St. Marianna University School of Medicine, 2-16-1 Sugao, Miyamae-ward, Kawasaki, Kanagawa 216-8511, Japan. keiko401@marianna-u.ac.jp
Objective:
The purpose of this study was to use synchrotron radiation imaging with 6-microm resolution to evaluate amorphous and pleomorphic breast tissue microcalcifications.
Conclusion:
Synchrotron radiation imaging depicted microcalcifications as small as 24 microm. Imaging with this technique revealed that most amorphous and pleomorphic calcifications on conventional mammograms are clusters of fine specks and that in addition to the shape or density of a speck, the distribution density of clustered specks is a factor determining the apparent shape.
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