A detection system for clinical breast tomography with synchrotron radiation

The goal of the MAmmographic and Tomographic Imaging with Silicon detectors and Synchrotron radiation at Elettra (MATISSE) project is to develop a detection system in order to perform in vivo breast tomographic examination at Elettra, the Trieste synchrotron facility. tection system consists of a silicon microstrip detector used in edge on configuration with single photon counting read out electronics. Due to both high efficiency of the detector and the possibility of selecting the most suitable energy, the dose delivered for a tomographic examination is comparable to the one delivered in planar conventional mammography. rst detector prototype has been assembled and the preliminary tests gave promising results for what concerns both the incoming rate response and the contrast resolution. Planar images of a mammographic test object have been collected, while tomographic images will be acquired with a new prototype during the next spring (2004).