Design and evaluation of a slot-scanning full-field digital mammography system

Guy M. Besson; Andreas Koch; Mike Tesic; Roland Sottoriva; Pascal Prieur-Drevron; Bernard Munier; Emmanuel Calais; Paul DeGroot

doi:10.1117/12.465589

3 May 2002 Design and evaluation of a slot-scanning full-field digital mammography system

Guy M. Besson, Andreas Koch, Mike Tesic, Roland Sottoriva, Pascal Prieur-Drevron, Bernard Munier, Emmanuel Calais, Paul DeGroot

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Proceedings Volume 4682, Medical Imaging 2002: Physics of Medical Imaging; (2002) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.465589
Event: Medical Imaging 2002, 2002, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

The FDA has approved the SenoScan slot-scanning Full-field Digital Mammography system. A high power Tungsten-target x- ray tube enables breast imaging with 0.22 s effective exposure time. A 21-cm X 29-cm area is scanned in less than 6 seconds, at a typical clinical technique of 30 kVp, 170 mA. The detector comprises a Thalium-doped Cesium Iodide scintillator coupled to a combination of four CCDs abutted along their narrow dimension to from a 10-mm by 210-mm slot. With the CCDs operated in time-delay-and-integration mode along the narrow dimension, the system functions in a continuous scanning mode. The MTF in the standard and high- resolution modes extend to 10-cycles/mm and beyond 14 cycles/mm respectively. The Detective Quantum Efficiency curve starts at 50 percent at DC and extends to 10 cycles/mm in Standard model. Accordingly the SenoScan system enables screening and diagnostic breast imaging with a limiting resolution approaching that of film-based systems. The overall system design and intrinsic scatter rejection efficiency directly translate in high DQE characteristics that enable screening at a significantly reduced patient dose.

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Guy M. Besson, Andreas Koch, Mike Tesic, Roland Sottoriva, Pascal Prieur-Drevron, Bernard Munier, Emmanuel Calais, and Paul DeGroot "Design and evaluation of a slot-scanning full-field digital mammography system", Proc. SPIE 4682, Medical Imaging 2002: Physics of Medical Imaging, (3 May 2002); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.465589

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