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A highly realistic virtual imaging chain including a model of the human breast could become an important tool for breast imaging system development, optimization and performance assessment. Here we propose a virtual modular breast model with mathematically defined complex anatomical structures that are each represented by a surface mesh. The anatomical structures are designed based on previously published descriptions of internal breast anatomy. Several phantom iterations were performed to tune simulated breast phantom x-ray images visually to real patient images. X-ray image simulation was performed using a polygonal projector. Visual assessment of simulated images of our breast phantoms has shown that our phantom can mimic the range of local features seen in mammograms, contrast-enhanced spectral mammography images and breast CT slices. Further understanding of the fibroglandular tissue structure and its spatial distribution are needed to improve our simulations.
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Carton, AK., Grisey, A., de Carvalho, P.M., Dromain, C., Muller, S. (2014). A Virtual Human Breast Phantom Using Surface Meshes and Geometric Internal Structures. In: Fujita, H., Hara, T., Muramatsu, C. (eds) Breast Imaging. IWDM 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8539. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07887-8_50
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