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Mammography of a phantom and breast tissue with synchrotron radiation and a linear-array silicon detector
F Arfelli1, V Bonvicini, A Bravin
1Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Trieste, Italy.
Radiology
|September 2, 1998
Abstract:
A linear-array, silicon pixel detector, capable of counting single photons, was applied to mammography by using a synchrotron radiation beam. Images were obtained of both a mammographic phantom and a breast-tissue sample. The phantom image was acquired with a mean glandular dose of 0.32 mGy. This detector combined with a synchrotron radiation beam allows acquisition of high-contrast, low-dose images of soft tissues.