Low Dose Rapid Scanning Slit Digital Mammography and Breast Tomosynthesis

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This fast track grant titled, Low Dose Rapid Scanning Slit Digital Mammography and Breast Tomosynthesis will enable us to bring to market a clinically driven improved method of breast imaging based on photon-countingx-ray detector arrays with energy discrimination. The detectors will enabled significant improvements in x-ray breast imaging such as reduced patient dose while maintaining excellent image quality, enhanced tissue contrast, material decomposition capabilities (tissue type identification), and quantitative iodine contrast imaging. The overall goal is to bring to the marketplace a photon-counting energy-dispersive x-ray detector with energy discrimination for use in human breast imaging. So far we have demonstrated a first generation fast photon-counting x-ray imaging array prototype which has a higher maximum output count rate (by more than an order of magnitude) than all others, and the array has been used to generate the preliminary data. Our technolog