Abstract
Early detection of small calcifications in mammograms is considered the best preventive tool of breast cancer. However, existing digital mammography with relatively low radiation skin exposure has limited accessibility and insufficient spatial resolution for small calcification detection. Micro Pattern Gaseous Detectors (MPGD) and associated technologies, increasingly provide new information useful to generate images of microscopic structures and make more accessible cutting edge technology for medical imaging and many other applications. In this work we foresee and develop an application for the new information provided by a MPGD camera in the form of highly controlled images with high dynamical resolution. We present a new Super Detail Image (S-DI) that efficiently profits of this new information provided by the MPGD camera to obtain very high spatial resolution images. Therefore, the method presented in this work shows that the MPGD camera with SD-I, can produce mammograms with the necessary spatial resolution to detect microcalcifications. It would substantially increase efficiency and accessibility of screening mammography to highly improve breast cancer prevention.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Article number | C07007 |
| Journal | Journal of Instrumentation |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue number | 7 |
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| State | Published - Jul 2012 |
Keywords
- Medical-image reconstruction methods and algorithms, computer-aided so
- Micropattern gaseous detectors (MSGC, GEM, THGEM, RETHGEM, MHSP, MICROPIC, MICROMEGAS, InGrid, etc)
- Pattern recognition, cluster finding, calibration and fitting methods
- X-ray mammography and scinto- and MRI-mammography
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Mathematical Physics
- Instrumentation