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Investigating the dose distribution in the uncompressed breast with a dedicated CT mammotomography system

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Crotty, DJ; Brady, SL; Jackson, DC; Toncheva, GI; Anderson, CE; Yoshizumi, TT; Tornai, MP
Published in: Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE
January 1, 2010

A dual modality SPECT-CT prototype dedicated to uncompressed breast imaging (mammotomography) has been developed. The CT subsystem incorporates an ultra-thick K-edge filtration technique producing a quasi-monochromatic x-ray cone beam to optimize the dose efficiency for uncompressed breast tomography. We characterize the absorbed dose to the breast under normal tomographic cone beam image acquisition protocols using both TLD measurements and ionization chamber-calibrated radiochromic film. Geometric and anthropomorphic breast phantoms are filled with 1000mL of water and oil to simulate different breast compositions and varying object shapes having density bounds of 100% glandular and fatty breast compositions, respectively. Doses to the water filled geometric and anthropomorphic breast phantoms for a tomographic scan range from 1.3-7.3mGy and 1.7-6.3mGy, respectively, with a mean whole-breast dose of 4.5mGy for the water-filled anthropomorphic phantom. Measured dose distribution trends indicate lower doses in the center of the breast phantoms towards the chest wall along with higher doses near the peripheries and nipple regions. Measured doses to the oil-filled phantoms are consistently lower across all volume shapes (mean dose, 3.8mGy for the anthropomorphic breast). Results agree with Monte Carlo dose estimates generated for uncompressed breast imaging and illustrate the advantages of using the novel K-edge filtered beam to minimize absorbed dose to the breast during fully-3D imaging. © 2010 SPIE.

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Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

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1605-7422

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9780819480231

Publication Date

January 1, 2010

Volume

7622

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PART 2
 

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Crotty, D. J., Brady, S. L., Jackson, D. C., Toncheva, G. I., Anderson, C. E., Yoshizumi, T. T., & Tornai, M. P. (2010). Investigating the dose distribution in the uncompressed breast with a dedicated CT mammotomography system. In Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE (Vol. 7622). https://doi.org/10.1117/12.845433
Crotty, D. J., S. L. Brady, D. C. Jackson, G. I. Toncheva, C. E. Anderson, T. T. Yoshizumi, and M. P. Tornai. “Investigating the dose distribution in the uncompressed breast with a dedicated CT mammotomography system.” In Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE, Vol. 7622, 2010. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.845433.
Crotty DJ, Brady SL, Jackson DC, Toncheva GI, Anderson CE, Yoshizumi TT, et al. Investigating the dose distribution in the uncompressed breast with a dedicated CT mammotomography system. In: Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE. 2010.
Crotty, D. J., et al. “Investigating the dose distribution in the uncompressed breast with a dedicated CT mammotomography system.” Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE, vol. 7622, no. PART 2, 2010. Scopus, doi:10.1117/12.845433.
Crotty DJ, Brady SL, Jackson DC, Toncheva GI, Anderson CE, Yoshizumi TT, Tornai MP. Investigating the dose distribution in the uncompressed breast with a dedicated CT mammotomography system. Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE. 2010.
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Published In

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

DOI

ISSN

1605-7422

ISBN

9780819480231

Publication Date

January 1, 2010

Volume

7622

Issue

PART 2