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The Accuracy of an Estimating Method for the Mammary Gland Composition in the Mammography Using the CdTe-Series Photon Counting Detector

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Breast Imaging (IWDM 2016)

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We propose a method for estimating mammary gland composition and report the examined results to find the better conditions to improve the precision of the estimation. We use a cadmium telluride series (CdTe-series) detector as a photon-counting mammography detector in this study, since CdTe-series detectors detect photons in a wide energy range and provide highly accurate energy discrimination. An imaging system using a CdTe-series detector is simulated by MATLAB. We divide the spectrum of an X-ray, which is transmitted a phantom, into three energy bins and calculate the corresponding linear attenuation coefficients from the numbers of input and output photons. These linear attenuation coefficients are plotted in a three-dimensional (3D) scatter plot. Using this 3D scatter plot, we estimate the mammary gland composition and determine the optimal conditions to estimate.

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The authors thank Dr. Hiroaki HAYASHI and Ms. Natsumi KIMOTO from Tokushima University for their assistance on calculating the average glandular dose.

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  1. Department of Radiological Science, Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan

    Ai Nakajima, Chizuru Okamoto, Akiko Ihori & Yoshie Kodera

  2. School of Health Sciences, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan

    Misa Kato

  3. JOB Corporation, Yokohama, Japan

    Tsutomu Yamakawa, Shuichiro Yamamoto & Masahiro Okada

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  1. Lund Univ. and Skåne University Hospital, Sweden

    Anders Tingberg

  2. Lund Univ. and Unilabs, Malmö, Sweden

    Kristina Lång

  3. Lund Univ. and Skåne University Hospital, Malmö, Sweden

    Pontus Timberg

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Nakajima, A. et al. (2016). The Accuracy of an Estimating Method for the Mammary Gland Composition in the Mammography Using the CdTe-Series Photon Counting Detector. In: Tingberg, A., Lång, K., Timberg, P. (eds) Breast Imaging. IWDM 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9699. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41546-8_13

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