Increasing display luminance as a means to enhance interpretation accuracy and efficiency when reducing full-field digital mammography dose

A comparison of the accuracy of film-screen mammography, full-field digital mammography, and digital breast tomosynthesis.

AIM To measure the change in diagnostic accuracy of conventional film-screen mammography and full-field digital mammography (FFDM) with the addition of digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) in women recalled for assessment following routine screening. MATERIALS AND METHODS Ethics approval for the study was granted. Women recalled for assessment following routine screening with screen-film mammog...

Acceptability to Women of Full Field Direct Digital Mammography

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Dose Reduction in Automatic Optimization Parameter of Full Field Digital Mammography: Breast Phantom Study

PURPOSE We evaluated the impact of three automatic optimization of parameters (AOP) modes of digital mammography on the dose and image quality. METHODS Computerized Imaging Reference Systems phantoms were used. A total of 12 phantoms with different thickness and glandularity were imaged. We analyzed the average glandular dose (AGD) and entrance surface exposure (ESE) of 12 phantoms imaged by ...

X-ray scattering in full-field digital mammography.

Effects of x-ray scattering on full-field digital mammography are analyzed with the scattering model of Seibert and Boone [Med. Phys. 15, 567-575 (1988)]. A new method is introduced for the estimation of model parameters from measurements. It is shown that with breasts thinner than a certain threshold, removing the anti-scatter grid leads to an improved contrast-to-noise ratio with a smaller pa...

Realizing the Benefits of Full-Field Digital Mammography