Introduction and purpose: The latest developments in breast imaging technology have underlined the need for appropriate dosimetry and image evaluation methods for routine quality assurance. We are presenting QUART evaluation method (phantom and dosimeter) to address this need for digital x-ray mammography and breast tomosynthesis systems. We compare our dose measurements to the dose readings fr...

OBJECTIVE We show with both a clinical case and measurements using the American College of Radiology mammography phantom that some digital mammography acquisition and image display combinations lead to both marked over- and underestimation of lesion sizes on geometrically magnified images. CONCLUSION The results of this study indicate that the accuracy of lesion size measurements in all magni...

PURPOSE It is estimated that every year, 1 × 10(6) women are diagnosed with breast cancer, and more than 410,000 die annually worldwide. Digital Image Elasto Tomography (DIET) is a new noninvasive breast cancer screening modality that induces mechanical vibrations in the breast and images its surface motion with digital cameras to detect changes in stiffness. This research develops a new automa...

Misregistration due to cardiac motion causes artifacts in two-exposure dual-energy subtraction images, in both the soft-tissue-only image and the bone-only image. Two previous investigations have attempted to avoid misregistration artifacts by using cardiac gating of the first and second exposures. The severity of misregistration was affected by the heart rate, the time interval between the low...

OBJECTIVE To investigate radiation doses in pediatric chest radiography in a national survey and to analyze the factors that affect radiation doses. MATERIALS AND METHODS The study was based on the results of 149 chest radiography machines in 135 hospitals nationwide. For each machine, a chest radiograph was obtained by using a phantom representing a 5-year-old child (ATOM® dosimetry phantom,...

Evaluation of entrance surface dose and scattered to the pelvis for common radiological examinations in analog digital radiography: A phantom study