The SYRMEP Beamline of Elettra: Clinical Mammography and Bio-medical Applications

Journal Article · Fri Jul 23 00:00:00 EDT 2010 · AIP Conference Proceedings

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3478190· OSTI ID:21415282

Tromba, G; Abrami, A; Casarin, K; Chenda, V; Dreossi, D; Mancini, L; Menk, R H; Quai, E; Sodini, N; Vascotto, A ^[1]; Longo, R; Arfelli, F; Castelli, E ^[2]; Astolfo, A ^[2]; Bregant, P ^[3]; Brun, F ^[1]; Hola, M ^[4]; Kaiser, J ^[5]; Quaia, E; Tonutti, M ^[6]

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1. Sincrotrone Trieste, Area Science Park, S.S. 14 km 163.5, 34012 Basovizza, Trieste (Italy)
2. Dipartimento di Fisica, Universita di Trieste, via Valerio 2, 34127, Trieste (Italy)
3. Struttura Complessa Fisica Sanitaria, Az. Ospedaliero Universitaria, Via Pieta' 19, 34129 Trieste (Italy)
4. Department of Chemistry, Masaryk University, Kamenice 4, 62500 Brno (Czech Republic)
5. Institute of Physical Engineering, Faculty of Mech. Engineering, Brno University of Technology, Technicka 2896/2, 61669 Brno (Czech Republic)
6. Dipartimento Universitario Clinico di Scienze Cliniche, Morfologiche e Tecnologiche, Universita' di Trieste, Osp. di Cattinara, Strada di Fiume 447, 34139 Trieste (Italy)

At the SYnchrotron Radiation for MEdical Physics (SYRMEP) beamline of Elettra Synchrotron Light Laboratory in Trieste (Italy), an extensive research program in bio-medical imaging has been developed since 1997. The core program carried out by the SYRMEP collaboration concerns the use of Synchrotron Radiation (SR) for clinical mammography with the aim of improving the diagnostic performance of the conventional technique. The first protocol with patients, started in 2006 has been completed at the end of 2009 and the data analysis is now in progress.Regarding applications different from clinical imaging, synchrotron X-ray computed microtomography (micro-CT) is the most used technique, both in absorption and phase contrast. A new software tool, Pore3D, has been developed to perform a quantitative morphological analysis on the reconstructed slices and to access textural information of the sample under study.

• OSTI ID: 21415282
• Journal Information: AIP Conference Proceedings, Journal Name: AIP Conference Proceedings Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 1266; ISSN 0094-243X; ISSN APCPCS
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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