Development and performance evaluation of an upright dedicated cone-beam breast CT system.

Thomas C Larsen¹, Hsin Wu Tseng², William Ross³, Stephen Araujo⁴, Pengwei Wu⁴, Eri Haneda⁴, Cynthia Davis⁴, Andrew Karellas², Srinivasan Vedantham^1,2

¹Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA.

²Department of Radiology & Imaging Sciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA.

³GE Aerospace Research, Niskayuna, New York, USA.

⁴GE HealthCare Technology & Innovation Center, Niskayuna, New York, USA.

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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Dedicated breast CT is an emerging breast X-ray imaging modality. While current commercial breast CT systems use prone-patient, pendant-breast geometry, the system described here uses upright patient geometry with the uncompressed breast supported by a cup. PURPOSE: The purpose of this work is to describe the development of a newly designed, upright geometry, dedicated cone-beam breas…

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