Design and evaluation of a grid reciprocation scheme for use in digital breast tomosynthesis

Tushita Patel; Helen Sporkin; Heather Peppard; Mark B. Williams

doi:10.1117/12.2216248

29 March 2016 Design and evaluation of a grid reciprocation scheme for use in digital breast tomosynthesis

Tushita Patel, Helen Sporkin, Heather Peppard, Mark B. Williams

Proceedings Volume 9788, Medical Imaging 2016: Biomedical Applications in Molecular, Structural, and Functional Imaging; 978805 (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2216248
Event: SPIE Medical Imaging, 2016, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

This work describes a methodology for efficient removal of scatter radiation during digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT). The goal of this approach is to enable grid image obscuration without a large increase in radiation dose by minimizing misalignment of the grid focal point (GFP) and x-ray focal spot (XFS) during grid reciprocation. Hardware for the motion scheme was built and tested on the dual modality breast tomosynthesis (DMT) scanner, which combines DBT and molecular breast tomosynthesis (MBT) on a single gantry. The DMT scanner uses fully isocentric rotation of tube and x-ray detector for maintaining a fixed tube-detector alignment during DBT imaging. A cellular focused copper prototype grid with 80 cm focal length, 3.85 mm height, 0.1 mm thick lamellae, and 1.1 mm hole pitch was tested. Primary transmission of the grid at 28 kV tube voltage was on average 74% with the grid stationary and aligned for maximum transmission. It fell to 72% during grid reciprocation by the proposed method. Residual grid line artifacts (GLAs) in projection views and reconstructed DBT images are characterized and methods for reducing the visibility of GLAs in the reconstructed volume through projection image flat-field correction and spatial frequency-based filtering of the DBT slices are described and evaluated. The software correction methods reduce the visibility of these artifacts in the reconstructed volume, making them imperceptible both in the reconstructed DBT images and their Fourier transforms.

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Tushita Patel, Helen Sporkin, Heather Peppard, and Mark B. Williams "Design and evaluation of a grid reciprocation scheme for use in digital breast tomosynthesis", Proc. SPIE 9788, Medical Imaging 2016: Biomedical Applications in Molecular, Structural, and Functional Imaging, 978805 (29 March 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2216248

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