Next Generation of Full Field Digital Mammography

Acceptability to Women of Full Field Direct Digital Mammography

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Realizing the Benefits of Full-Field Digital Mammography

Current Status of Full-Field Digital Mammography 1

Screen-film mammography has been studied extensively for the past 30 years, and because of many large randomized screening trials, it is known to reduce breast cancer mortality by approximately 18%-30% (1,2). The decline in the rate of breast cancer death in the past few years may be due in part to the widespread use of this imaging test (3,4). However, while standard screen-film mammography is...

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...

Full Field Digital Mammography with Breast Cushions in Screening Subjects

To explore the impact of radiolucent breast cushions on breast pain and image quality of full field digital mammography (FFDM) in screening subjects. The American College of Radiology (ACR) phantom and fifty-four women were enrolled in this study. Use of cushions reduced pain (p < 0.001). The imaging quality with cushions was inferior to those without cushions in phantom studies (p ≦ 0.01), on ...