Investigating the dose distribution in the uncompressed breast with a dedicated CT mammotomography system

Dominic J. Crotty; Samuel L. Brady; D'Vone C. Jackson; Greta I. Toncheva; Colin E. Anderson; Terry T. Yoshizumi; Martin P. Tornai

doi:10.1117/12.845433

22 March 2010 Investigating the dose distribution in the uncompressed breast with a dedicated CT mammotomography system

Dominic J. Crotty, Samuel L. Brady, D'Vone C. Jackson, Greta I. Toncheva, Colin E. Anderson, Terry T. Yoshizumi, Martin P. Tornai

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Proceedings Volume 7622, Medical Imaging 2010: Physics of Medical Imaging; 762229 (2010) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.845433
Event: SPIE Medical Imaging, 2010, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

A dual modality SPECT-CT prototype dedicated to uncompressed breast imaging (mammotomography) has been developed. The CT subsystem incorporates an ultra-thick K-edge filtration technique producing a quasi-monochromatic x-ray cone beam to optimize the dose efficiency for uncompressed breast tomography. We characterize the absorbed dose to the breast under normal tomographic cone beam image acquisition protocols using both TLD measurements and ionization chamber-calibrated radiochromic film. Geometric and anthropomorphic breast phantoms are filled with 1000mL of water and oil to simulate different breast compositions and varying object shapes having density bounds of 100% glandular and fatty breast compositions, respectively. Doses to the water filled geometric and anthropomorphic breast phantoms for a tomographic scan range from 1.3-7.3mGy and 1.7-6.3mGy, respectively, with a mean whole-breast dose of 4.5mGy for the water-filled anthropomorphic phantom. Measured dose distribution trends indicate lower doses in the center of the breast phantoms towards the chest wall along with higher doses near the peripheries and nipple regions. Measured doses to the oil-filled phantoms are consistently lower across all volume shapes (mean dose, 3.8mGy for the anthropomorphic breast). Results agree with Monte Carlo dose estimates generated for uncompressed breast imaging and illustrate the advantages of using the novel K-edge filtered beam to minimize absorbed dose to the breast during fully-3D imaging.

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Dominic J. Crotty, Samuel L. Brady, D'Vone C. Jackson, Greta I. Toncheva, Colin E. Anderson, Terry T. Yoshizumi, and Martin P. Tornai "Investigating the dose distribution in the uncompressed breast with a dedicated CT mammotomography system", Proc. SPIE 7622, Medical Imaging 2010: Physics of Medical Imaging, 762229 (22 March 2010); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.845433

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