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| STEPHEN GLICKSummaryAffiliation: University of Massachusetts Medical School Country: USA Publications
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Breast CTStephen J Glick
Department of Radiology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts 01655, USA
Annu Rev Biomed Eng 9:501-26. 2007..A number of academic groups are currently researching dedicated breast CT and prototype systems are currently being evaluated in the clinical setting...
Evaluating the impact of X-ray spectral shape on image quality in flat-panel CT breast imagingStephen J Glick
Department of Radiology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester Massachusetts 01655, USA
Med Phys 34:5-24. 2007..The results give an indication of how spectral shape can affect image quality in flat-panel CT breast imaging...
Evaluation of a variable dose acquisition technique for microcalcification and mass detection in digital breast tomosynthesisMini Das
Department of Radiology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, 55 Lake Avenue North, Worcester, Massachusetts 01655, USA
Med Phys 36:1976-84. 2009..71) was compared to that obtained from the UD-DBT (AL=0.78). The authors found no statistically significant difference between the two (p-value=0.22), although all the observers performed better for UD-DBT...
Microcalcification detection using cone-beam CT mammography with a flat-panel imagerXing Gong
Department of Radiology, University of Massachusetts, Medical School, Worcester, MA 01655, USA
Phys Med Biol 49:2183-95. 2004..2 mm for microcalcification detection, based on the trade-off between detectability of microcalcifications and the time required for data acquisition and reconstruction...
Noise characterization of block-iterative reconstruction algorithms: II. Monte Carlo simulationsEdward J Soares
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA 01610, USA
IEEE Trans Med Imaging 24:112-21. 2005..In addition, the validity of the approximation will be justified...
Normalized glandular dose (DgN) coefficients for flat-panel CT breast imagingSamta C Thacker
Department of Radiology, University of Massachusetts, Medical School, Worcester, MA 01655, USA
Phys Med Biol 49:5433-44. 2004..In addition, figures displaying energy deposition maps are presented to better understand the spatial distribution of dose in CT breast imaging...
Characterization of scatter in cone-beam CT breast imaging: comparison of experimental measurements and Monte Carlo simulationYu Chen
Department of Radiology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts 01655, USA
Med Phys 36:857-69. 2009..The single Rayleigh scatter was observed to be the primary contribution to the spatially variant scatter component...
Reconstruction of 2D PET data with Monte Carlo generated system matrix for generalized natural pixelsStefaan Vandenberghe
ELIS Department, MEDISIP, Ghent University, B 9000 Ghent, Belgium
Phys Med Biol 51:3105-25. 2006..Less important factors were the choice of the algorithm (MLEM performed better than ART) and the basis functions (generalized natural pixels gave better results than pixels)...
A computer simulation study comparing lesion detection accuracy with digital mammography, breast tomosynthesis, and cone-beam CT breast imagingXing Gong
Departments of Medical Physics and Radiation Oncology, Rush University Medical Center, 1653 W Congress Parkway, Chicago, Illinois 60612, USA
Med Phys 33:1041-52. 2006....
Characterization of tomographic sampling in hybrid PET using the Fourier crosstalk matrixRobert Z Stodilka
CareImaging Corp, 246 Matheson Blvd, Mississauga, ON L4Z 1X1, Canada
IEEE Trans Med Imaging 21:1468-78. 2002....
Research Grants
- Iterative Reconstruction for Breast TomosynthesisSTEPHEN GLICK; Fiscal Year: 2009..Evaluation and optimization of different imaging system designs and acquisition processes will be conducted by evaluating lesion detection accuracy using realistically simulated tomosynthesis breast images. ..
- Feasibility of CT Mammography Using Flat Panel DetectorsSTEPHEN GLICK; Fiscal Year: 2005..These models will be determined based on the statistical characterization of surgically removed lesion and breast tissue specimens. ..
- IMPROVED QUANTITATIVE ACCURACY OF SPECT-PET IMAGINGSTEPHEN GLICK; Fiscal Year: 2001....
- Development of a Photon Counting Detector for CT Breast ImagingStephen J Glick; Fiscal Year: 2010..This research proposes to develop an improved, innovative detector system for breast CT imaging. ..
