Congress:
EuroSafe Imaging 2017
Keywords:
Cancer, Physics, Mammography, Radiation physics, Breast, Action 3 - Image quality assessment based on clinical indications, Action 4 - Quality of radiological equipment, Quality assurance
Authors:
I. Fitton, J. Minassian, A. Noël
DOI:
10.1594/esi2017/ESI-0016
Background/Introduction
Digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) is a diagnosis modality improving breast cancer detection mainly in the case of tumor masses developed in dense breasts (1,
2,
3,
4).
Large discrepancies between DBT systems imply the definition of dose and image quality tests for acceptance and during lifetime of DBT equipments to guarantee an accurate and secure diagnosis.
In Europe,
the EUropean REFerence organisation (EUREF) group conducted trials to propose materials and tests for quality control (QC) protocol (5,
6).
The EUREF protocol constitutes the first step to study the capabilities of DBT systems; however elaborated tests on the reconstructed images based on relevant parameters in DBT are still missing.
The aim of our study is to propose the follow-up of image quality parameters involving both,
the main recommendations from the EUREF group and from Sechopoulos et al. (7) associated to additional parameters related to glandular and adipose breast tissues,
in order to define a QC protocol.