Design and application of a structured phantom for detection performance comparison between breast tomosynthesis and digital mammography

Cockmartin, Lesley; Marshall, Nicholas; Zhang, G; Lemmens, Karen; Shaheen, Eman; Van Ongeval, Chantal; Fredenberg, Erik; R. Dance, David; Salvagnini, Elena; Michielsen, Koen; Bosmans, Hilde

doi:10.1088/1361-6560/aa5407

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Design and application of a structured phantom for detection performance comparison between breast tomosynthesis and digital mammography

Published in Physics in Medicine and Biology • Dec 15, 2016

Authors:

Lesley Cockmartin

Nicholas Marshall

G Zhang

Abstract

Abstract This paper introduces and applies a structured phantom with inserted target objects for the comparison of detection performance of digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) against 2D full field digital mammography (FFDM). The phantom consists of a 48 mm thick breast-shaped polymethyl methacrylate...

Subject

Imaging phantom

Tomosynthesis

Digital Breast Tomosynthesis

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