High dynamic range CMOS-based mammography detector for FFDM and DBT

Inge M. Peters; Chiel Smit; James J. Miller; Andrey Lomako

doi:10.1117/12.2216848

23 March 2016 High dynamic range CMOS-based mammography detector for FFDM and DBT

Inge M. Peters, Chiel Smit, James J. Miller, Andrey Lomako

Proceedings Volume 9783, Medical Imaging 2016: Physics of Medical Imaging; 978316 (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2216848
Event: SPIE Medical Imaging, 2016, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

Digital Breast Tomosynthesis (DBT) requires excellent image quality in a dynamic mode at very low dose levels while Full Field Digital Mammography (FFDM) is a static imaging modality that requires high saturation dose levels. These opposing requirements can only be met by a dynamic detector with a high dynamic range. This paper will discuss a wafer-scale CMOS-based mammography detector with 49.5 μm pixels and a CsI scintillator. Excellent image quality is obtained for FFDM as well as DBT applications, comparing favorably with a-Se detectors that dominate the X-ray mammography market today. The typical dynamic range of a mammography detector is not high enough to accommodate both the low noise and the high saturation dose requirements for DBT and FFDM applications, respectively. An approach based on gain switching does not provide the signal-to-noise benefits in the low-dose DBT conditions. The solution to this is to add frame summing functionality to the detector. In one X-ray pulse several image frames will be acquired and summed. The requirements to implement this into a detector are low noise levels, high frame rates and low lag performance, all of which are unique characteristics of CMOS detectors. Results are presented to prove that excellent image quality is achieved, using a single detector for both DBT as well as FFDM dose conditions. This method of frame summing gave the opportunity to optimize the detector noise and saturation level for DBT applications, to achieve high DQE level at low dose, without compromising the FFDM performance.

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Inge M. Peters, Chiel Smit, James J. Miller, and Andrey Lomako "High dynamic range CMOS-based mammography detector for FFDM and DBT", Proc. SPIE 9783, Medical Imaging 2016: Physics of Medical Imaging, 978316 (23 March 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2216848

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