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SD Metzler, JE Bowsher, MP Tornai, BC Pieper, J Peter, RJ Jaszczak. "SPECT Breast Imaging Combining Horizontal and Vertical Axes of Rotation" Presented at 2000 IEEE Nucl. Sci. Symposium and Med. Imaging Conference, Lyon, France, 15-20 Oct. 2000, and published in 2000 IEEE Conference Record NSS/MIC, 3:2272-2276.

BC Pieper, JE Bowsher, MP Tornai, J Peter, KL Greer, RJ Jaszczak. "Breast Tumor Imaging Using a Tiltable Head SPECT Camera." Presented at 2000 IEEE Nucl. Sci. Symposium and Med. Imaging Conference, Lyon, France, 15-20 Oct. 2000, and published in 2000 IEEE Conference Record NSS/MIC, 3:2277-2281.

MP Tornai, JE Bowsher, BC Pieper, RJ Jaszczak. "Effects of Pinhole Material and Aperture Size on Lesion Contrast and SNR in Breast SPECT." Presented at 2000 IEEE Nucl. Sci. Symposium and Med. Imaging Conference, Lyon, France, 15-20 Oct. 2000, and published in 2000 IEEE Conference Record NSS/MIC, 3:2216-2220.

MP Tornai, CN Brzymialkiewicz, AG Weisenberger, R Wojcik, V Popov, S Majewski, CE Keppel, CS Levin, SV Tipnis, VV Nagarkar. "Investigation of Micro-Columnar Scintillators on an Optical Fiber Coupled Compact Imaging System." Presented at 2000 IEEE Nucl. Sci. Symposium and Med. Imaging Conference, Lyon, France, 15-20 Oct. 2000, and published in 2000 IEEE Conference Record NSS/MIC, 3:2219-2223.

CN Archer, MP Tornai, JE Bowsher, SD Metzler, BC Pieper, RJ Jaszczak, LR MacDonald, BE Patt, JS Iwanczyk. "Implementation and Initial Characterization of Acquisition Orbits About a Pendulous Breast Using the ASET System." Presented at 2001 IEEE Nucl. Sci. Symp. & Med. Imag. Conf., San Diego, CA, 3-10 Nov. 2001, and published in 2001 IEEE Conference Record NSS/MIC, 3:1323-1327.

JE Bowsher, MP Tornai, SD Metzler, J Peter, RJ Jaszczak. "SPECT Breast Imaging Using More Nearly Complete Orbits and Combined Pinhole-Parallel-Beam Collimation." Presented at 2001 IEEE Nucl. Sci. Symp. & Med. Imag. Conf., San Diego, CA, 3-10 Nov. 2001, and published in 2001 IEEE Conference Record NSS/MIC, 3:1328-1330.

M Chen, J Peter, RJ Jaszczak, DR Gilland, JE Bowsher, MP Tornai, SD Metzler. "Observer Studies of Cardiac Lesion Detectability with Triple-Head 360? vs. Dual-Head 180? SPECT Acquisition Using Simulated Projection Data." Presented at 2001 IEEE Nucl. Sci. Symp. & Med. Imag. Conf., San Diego, CA, 3-10 Nov. 2001, and published in 2001 IEEE Conference Record NSS/MIC, 4:2229-2233.

A Krol, JE Bowsher, DH Feiglin, G Gagne, BJ Hellwig, MP Tornai, FD Thomas. 2001. "Physical Phantom Evaluation of EM-IntraSPECT (EMIS) Algorithm for Non-Uniform Attenuation Correction in Cardiac Imaging." Presented at SPIE Medical Imaging Conf., San Diego, CA, 17-23 Feb. 2001, and published in Proc. SPIE: Medical Imaging. 4322(27):934-938.

BC Pieper, JE Bowsher, MP Tornai, CN Archer, RJ Jaszczak. "Parallel-Beam Tilted-Head Analytic SPECT Reconstruction." Presented at 2001 IEEE Nucl. Sci. Symp. & Med. Imag. Conf., San Diego, CA, 3-10 Nov. 2001, and published in 2001 IEEE Conference Record NSS/MIC, 3:1313-1317.

MP Tornai, JE Bowsher, CN Archer, J Peter, LR MacDonald, BE Patt, JS Iwanczyk, RJ Jaszczak, RE Coleman. "A Novel Application Specific Emission Tomograph (ASET) for Breast Imaging." Presented at 2001 IEEE Nucl. Sci. Symp. & Med. Imag. Conf., San Diego, CA, 3-10 Nov. 2001, and published in 2001 IEEE Conference Record NSS/MIC, 2:1161-1165.

CN Archer, MP Tornai, JE Bowsher, ML Bradshaw. "Initial Investigation of Circle-Plus-Arc Orbit Variants with a Dedicated Emission Mammotomograph." Presented at the 2002 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Norfolk, VA, 12-16 Nov. 2002, and published in 2002 IEEE Conference Record NSS/MIC, 2:1118-1122.

SV Tipnis, VV Nagarkar, I Shestakova, V Gaysinskiy, G Entine, MP Tornai, BC Stack. "Feasibility of a Beta-Gamma Digital Imaging Probe for Radioguided Surgery." Presented at the 2002 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Norfolk, VA, 12-16 Nov. 2002, and published in 2002 IEEE Conference Record NSS/MIC, 1:43-47.

MP Tornai, CN Archer, JE Bowsher, RL McKinley, RJ Jaszczak. "Transmission Imaging with a Compact Gamma Camera: Initial Results for Mammotomography." Presented at the 2002 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Norfolk, VA, 12-16 Nov. 2002, and published in 2002 IEEE Conference Record NSS/MIC, 3:1597-1601.

RL McKinley, MP Tornai, E Samei, ML Bradshaw. 2003. "Optimizing Beam Quality for X-ray Computed Mammotomography (CmT)." Presented at SPIE Conf. on Medical Imaging, San Diego, CA, 15-20 Feb. 2003, and published in Proc. SPIE: Physics of Medical Imaging, 5030(2):575-584.

CN Archer, MP Tornai. "Investigation of Full-Field CZT Detector for Emission Mammotomography." Presented at the 2003 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Portland, OR, 19-25 October, 2003, and published in 2003 IEEE Conference Record NSS/MIC, 4:2667-2671.

ML Bradshaw, RL McKinley, MP Tornai, E Samei. "Simulation Study of Quasi-Monochromatic X-ray Beam Performance for X-ray Computed Mammotomography Given Various Breast Compositions and Lesion Sizes." Presented at the 2003 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Portland, OR, 19-25 Oct., 2003, and published in 2003 IEEE Conference Record NSS/MIC, 3:1850-1854.

RL McKinley, MP Tornai, E Samei, ML Bradshaw. "Initial Study of a Quasi-Monochromatic Beam for X-ray Computed Mammotomography." Presented at the 2003 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Portland, OR, 19-25 October, 2003, and published in 2003 IEEE Conference Record NSS/MIC, 4:2999-3003.

MP Tornai, CN Archer, ML Bradshaw, JE Bowsher, BE Patt, JS Iwanczyk, J Li, LR MacDonald. "Comparison of Compact Gamma Cameras with 1.3mm and 2.0mm Quantized Elements for Dedicated Emission Mammotomography." Presented at the 2003 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Portland, OR, 19-25 Oct., 2003, and published in 2003 IEEE Conference Record NSS/MIC, 3:1886-1890.

RL McKinley, E Samei, CN Brzymialkiewicz, MP Tornai, CE Floyd. 2004. "Measurements of an Optimized Beam for X-ray Computed Mammotomography." Presented at SPIE Conf. on Medical Imaging, San Diego, CA, 14-19 Feb. 2004, and published in Proc. SPIE: Physics of Medical Imaging, 5389:311-319.

CN Brzymialkiewicz, MP Tornai, RL McKinley, SJ Cutler, JE Bowsher. "3D Data Acquisition Sampling Strategies for Dedicated Emission Mammotomography for Various Breast Sizes." Presented at the 2004 IEEE Nucl. Sci. Symposium & Med. Imaging Conference, Rome, Italy, 16-22 Oct. 2004, and published in 2004 IEEE Conference Record NSS/MIC,4:2596-2600.

MP Tornai, CN Brzymialkiewicz, SJ Cutler, P Madhav. "Comparison of Scintimammography and Dedicated Emission Mammotomography." Presented at the 2004 IEEE Nucl. Sci. Symposium & Med. Imaging Conference, Rome, Italy, 16-22 Oct. 2004, and published in 2004 IEEE Conference Record NSS/MIC, 4:2818-2822.

RL McKinley, CN Brzymialkiewicz, P Madhav, MP Tornai. 2005. "Investigation of Cone-Beam Acquisitions Implemented Using a Novel Dedicated Mammotomography System with Unique Arbitrary Orbit Capability." Presented at the 2005 SPIE Medical Imaging Conference, San Diego, CA, 12 – 18 Feb. 2005, and published in Proc. SPIE: Physics of Medical Imaging, 5745(1):609-617.

MP Tornai, RL McKinley, CN Brzymialkiewicz SJ Cutler, DJ Crotty. 2005. "Anthropomorphic Breast Phantoms for Preclinical Imaging Evaluation with Transmission or Emission Imaging." Presented at the 2005 SPIE Medical Imaging Conference, San Diego, CA, 12 – 18 Feb. 2005, and published in Proc. SPIE: Physiology, Function, and Struture from Medical Images, 5746(2):825-834.

MP Tornai, RL McKinley, CN Brzymialkiewicz, P Madhav, SJ Cutler, DJ Crotty, JE Bowsher, E Samei, CE Floyd. 2005. "Design and Development of a Fully-3D Dedicated X-ray Computed Mammotomography System." Presented at the 2005 SPIE Medical Imaging Conference, San Diego, CA, 12 – 18 Feb. 2005, and published in Proc. SPIE: Physics of Medical Imaging, 5745(1):189-197.

CN Brzymialkiewicz, RL McKinley, MP Tornai. "Towards Patient Imaging with Dedicated Emission Mammotomography." Presented at the 2005 Nucl. Sci. Symp. & Med. Imag. Conf., San Juan, Puerto Rico, 23-29 Oct. 2005, and published in 2005 IEEE Conference Record NSS/MIC: 1519-1523.

DJ Crotty, CN Brzymialkiewicz, RL McKinley, MP Tornai. "Optimizing Orientation of SPECT and Cone Beam CT Detectors Through Quantification of Cross Contamination in a Dual Modality Mammotomography System." Presented at the 2005 Nucl. Sci. Symp. & Med. Imag. Conf., San Juan, Puerto Rico, 23-29 Oct. 2005, and published in 2005 IEEE Conference Record NSS/MIC: 1672-1676.

SJ Cutler, CN Brzymialkiewicz, MP Tornai. "Investigating the Effects of Energy Resolution in Dedicated Emission Mammotomography." Presented at the 2005 Nucl. Sci. Symp. & Med. Imag. Conf., San Juan, Puerto Rico, 23-29 Oct. 2005, and published in 2005 IEEE Conference Record NSS/MIC: 2537-2541.

P Madhav, CN Brzymialkiewicz, SJ Cutler, JE Bowsher, MP Tornai. "Characterizing the MTF in 3D for a Quantized SPECT Camera Having Arbitrary Trajectories." Presented at the 2005 Nucl. Sci. Symp. & Med. Imag. Conf., San Juan, Puerto Rico, 23-29 Oct. 2005, and published in 2005 IEEE Conference Record NSS/MIC: 1722-1726.

DJ Crotty, CN Brzymialkewicz, RL McKinley, MP Tornai.
"Investigation of Emission Contamination in the Transmission Image of a Dual Modality Computed Mammotomography System." Presented at the 2006 SPIE Medical Imaging Conference, 11-17 Feb. 2006, San Diego, CA, and published in 2006 Proc. SPIE: Physics of Medical Imaging, 6142:1088-1098.

DJ Crotty, RL McKinley, MP Tornai. "Experimental Spectral Measurements of Heavy K-edge Filtered Beams for X-ray Computed Mammotomography." Presented at the 2006 SPIE Medical Imaging Conference, 11-17 Feb. 2006, San Diego, CA, and published in 2006 Proc. SPIE: Physics of Medical Imaging, 6142:664-674.

E Dura, P Madhav, SJ Cutler, TG Turkington, MP Tornai. "InitialComparison of Registration and Fusion of SPECT-CmT Mammotomography Images." Presented at the 2006 SPIE Medical Imaging Conference, 11-17 Feb. 2006, San Diego, CA, and published in 2006 Proc. SPIE: Medical Image Processing, 6144:1036-1045.

P Madhav, RL McKinley, E Samei, JE Bowsher , MP Tornai. "A Novel Method to Characterize the MTF in 3D for Computed Mammotomography." Presented at the 2006 SPIE Medical Imaging Conference, 11-17 Feb. 2006, San Diego, CA, and published in 2006 Proc. SPIE: Physics of Medical Imaging, 6142:697-706.

RL McKinley, MP Tornai. "Preliminary Investigation of Dose for a Dedicated Mammotomography System." Presented at the 2006 SPIE Medical Imaging Conference, 11-17 Feb. 2006, San Diego, CA, and published in 2006 Proc. SPIE: Physics of Medical Imaging, 6142:60-70.

DJ Crotty, CN Brzymialkewicz, RL McKinley, MP Tornai. "Investigation of Emission Contamination in the Transmission Image of a Dual Modality Computed Mammotomography System." Presented at the 2006 SPIE Medical Imaging Conference, 11-17 Feb. 2006, San Diego, CA, and published in 2006 Proc. SPIE: Physics of Medical Imaging, 6142:1088-1098.

DJ Crotty, RL McKinley, MP Tornai. "Experimental Spectral Measurements of Heavy K-edge Filtered Beams for X-ray Computed Mammotomography." Presented at the 2006 SPIE Medical Imaging Conference, 11-17 Feb. 2006, San Diego, CA, and published in 2006 Proc. SPIE: Physics of Medical Imaging, 6142:664-674.

E Dura, P Madhav, SJ Cutler, TG Turkington, MP Tornai. "Initial Comparison of Registration and Fusion of SPECT-CmT Mammotomography Images." Presented at the 2006 SPIE Medical Imaging Conference, 11-17 Feb. 2006, San Diego, CA, and published in 2006 Proc. SPIE: Medical Image Processing, 6144:1036-1045.

P Madhav, RL McKinley, E Samei, JE Bowsher , MP Tornai. "A Novel Method to Characterize the MTF in 3D for Computed Mammotomography." Presented at the 2006 SPIE Medical Imaging Conference, 11-17 Feb. 2006, San Diego, CA, and published in 2006 Proc. SPIE: Physics of Medical Imaging, 6142:697-706.

RL McKinley, MP Tornai. "Preliminary Investigation of Dose for a Dedicated Mammotomography System." Presented at the 2006 SPIE Medical Imaging Conference, 11-17 Feb. 2006, San Diego, CA, and published in 2006 Proc. SPIE: Physics of Medical Imaging, 6142:60-70.

DJ Crotty, P Madhav, RL McKinley, MP Tornai. "Patient Bed Design for an Integrated SPECT-CT Dedicated Mammotomography System." Presented at the 2006 Workshop on the Nuclear Radiology of Breast Cancer, San Diego, CA, 4-5 Nov. 2006, and published in 2006 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference Record, 6:3915 – 3919.

SJ Cutler, KL Perez, MP Tornai. "3-D Contrast-Detail Analysis for Dedicated Emission Mammotomography." Presented at the 2006 Nucl. Sci. Symp. & Med. Imag. Conf., San Diego, CA, 29 Oct. – 4 Nov. 2006, and published in 2006 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference Record, 5:2954 – 2958.

P Madhav, DJ Crotty, RL McKinley, MP Tornai. "Initial Development of a Dual-Modality SPECT-CT System for Dedicated Mammotomography." Presented at the 2006 Nucl. Sci. Symp. & Med. Imag. Conf., San Diego, CA, 29 Oct. – 4 Nov. 2006, and published in 2006 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference Record, 4:2382 – 2386.

DJ Crotty, P Madhav, RL McKinley, MP Tornai. "Investigating Novel Patient Bed Designs for Use in a Hybrid Dual Modality Dedicated 3D Breast Imaging System." Presented at 2007 SPIE Medical Imaging Meeting, San Diego, CA, 17-22 Feb. 2007, and published in Proc. SPIE 2007: Physics of Medical Imaging, 6150: (1H-1)-(1H-10), doi:10.1117/12.713764.

P Madhav, DJ Crotty, RL McKinley, MP Tornai. "Evaluation of Lesion Visualization at Various System Tilts in the Development of a Hybrid SPECT-CT System for Dedicated Mammotomography." Presented at 2007 SPIE Medical Imaging Meeting, San Diego, CA, 17-22 Feb. 2007, and published in Proc. SPIE 2007: Physics of Medical Imaging, 6150: (1F-1)-(1F-10), doi:10.1117/12.713541.

RL McKinley, MP Tornai, CE Floyd, E Samei. "Contrast-Detail Comparison of Computed Mammotomography and Digital Mammography." Presented at 2007 SPIE Medical Imaging Meeting, San Diego, CA, 17-22 Feb. 2007, and published in Proc. SPIE 2007: Physics of Medical Imaging, 6150:(1D-1)-(1D-10), doi:10.1117/12.713032.

KL Perez, DJ Crotty, P Madhav, MP Tornai. "Analysis of Patient Bed Positioning in SPECT-CT Imaging for Dedicated Mammotomography." Presented at 2007 SPIE Medical Imaging Meeting, San Diego, CA, 17-22 Feb. 2007, and published in Proc. SPIE 2007: Physics of Medical Imaging, 6150:(37-1)-(37-8), doi:10.1117/12.713822.

SJ Cutler, DJ Crotty, KL Perez, P Madhav, MP Tornai. "Comparison of Limited Angle and Fully 3D Acquisition Sequencing and Trajectories for Dual-Modality Mammotomography." Presented at IEEE Nucl. Sci. Symposium & Med. Imag. Conference, 28 Oct. - 3 Nov. 2007, Honolulu, Hawaii, and published in 2007 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference Record, 6:4044 – 4050.

P Madhav, DJ Crotty, KL Perez, SJ Cutler, RL McKinley, T Wong, MP Tornai. "Initial Patient Study with Dedicated Dual-Modality SPECT-CT Mammotomography." Presented at IEEE Nucl. Sci. Symposium & Med. Imag. Conference, 28 Oct. - 3 Nov. 2007, Honolulu, Hawaii, and published in 2007 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference Record, 5:3781 – 3787.

KL Perez, SJ Cutler, MP Tornai. "Empirical Effects of Angular Sampling and Background Content on Image Quality in Dedicated Breast SPECT." Presented at IEEE Nucl. Sci. Symposium & Med. Imag. Conference, 28 Oct. - 3 Nov. 2007, Honolulu, Hawaii, and published in 2007 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference Record, 5:3065 – 3069.

SJ Cutler, DJ Crotty, MP Tornai. "Dynamic Laser-Guided Contouring for Dedicated Emission Mammotomography." Presented at 2008 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Dresden, Germany, 19-25 October, 2008, and published in 2008 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference Record, 4789-4793.

SJ Cutler, KL Perez, P Madhav, MP Tornai. "Comparison of 2D Scintimammography and 3D Dedicated Breast SPECT Using A Compressible Breast Phantom and Lesions of Varying Size and Tracer Uptake." Presented at 4th International Workshop on the Molecular Radiology of Breast Cancer, Dresden, Germany, 20-21 October, 2008, and published in 2008 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference Record, 5640-5646.

DJ Crotty, SJ Cutler, RL McKinley, P Madhav, KL Perez, MP Tornai. "Improved Chest Wall Imaging through Combined Circular Trajectories in Dedicated Dual Modality SPECT-CT Breast Molecular Imaging." Presented at 4th International Workshop on the Molecular Radiology of Breast Cancer, Dresden, Germany, 20-21 October, 2008, and published in 2008 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference Record, 5650-5665.

KL Perez, SJ Cutler, P Madhav, MP Tornai. "Novel Patient Optimized Acquisition Trajectories for Dedicated Breast SPECT Imaging." Presented at 4th International Workshop on the Molecular Radiology of Breast Cancer, Dresden, Germany, 20-21 October, 2008, and published in 2008 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference Record, 5629-5634.

DJ Crotty, RL McKinley, P Madhav, SJ Cutler, MP Tornai. "Initial Investigation of Novel Trajectories to Improve Chest Wall Imaging in a Dedicated Breast Computed Tomography System." Presented at 2009 SPIE Medical Imaging Meeting, Orlando, FL, Feb. 2009, and to be published in Proc. SPIE 2009: Physics of Medical Imaging.

 

 

 

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