Breast Cancer Diagnostics
Phase contrast imaging evaluated to improve lesion detectability
Published in Women's Health Weekly, October 20th, 2005
According to a study from Japan, "It is well-known that the edge effect produced by phase contrast imaging results in the edge enhancement of x-ray images and thereby sharpens those images. It has recently been reported that phase contrast imaging using practical x-ray tubes with small focal spots has improved image sharpness as observed in the phase contrast imaging with x-ray from synchrotron radiation or micro-focus x-ray tubes."
"In this study," S. Matsuo and colleagues "conducted the phase contrast imaging of a plastic fiber and plant seeds...
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