Digital mammography

ED Pisano, MJ Yaffe - Radiology, 2005 - pubs.rsna.org
In digital mammography, the processes of image acquisition, display, and storage are
separated, which allows optimization of each. Radiation transmitted through the breast is …

AAPM/RSNA physics tutorial for residents: digital mammography: an overview

M Mahesh - Radiographics, 2004 - pubs.rsna.org
Recent advances in digital detector technology have paved the way to full-field digital
mammography (FFDM) systems. The performance of these systems has evolved to the point …

[HTML][HTML] Diagnostic performance of digital versus film mammography for breast-cancer screening

ED Pisano, C Gatsonis, E Hendrick… - … England Journal of …, 2005 - Mass Medical Soc
Background Film mammography has limited sensitivity for the detection of breast cancer in
women with radiographically dense breasts. We assessed whether the use of digital …

[HTML][HTML] Diagnostic accuracy of digital mammography in the detection of breast cancer

M Zeeshan, B Salam, QSB Khalid, S Alam, R Sayani - Cureus, 2018 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Objective To calculate the diagnostic accuracy of digital mammography in the detection of
breast cancer, using histopathology as a gold standard in women aged over 30 years, who …

Comparison of full-field digital mammography and film–screen mammography: image quality and lesion detection

A Fischmann, KC Siegmann, A Wersebe… - The British journal of …, 2005 - academic.oup.com
The objective of this study is to compare image quality and lesion detection for full field
digital mammography (FFDM) and film–screen mammography (FSM). In 200 women we …

Full-field digital mammography compared to screen film mammography in the prevalent round of a population-based screening programme: the Vestfold County Study

E Vigeland, H Klaasen, TA Klingen, S Hofvind… - European …, 2008 - Springer
The purpose of the study was to compare the performance of full-field digital mammography
(FFDM) with soft-copy reading to screen film mammography (SFM) used during the first …

Computer aided detection of clusters of microcalcifications on full field digital mammograms

J Ge, B Sahiner, LM Hadjiiski, HP Chan, J Wei… - Medical …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
We are developing a computer‐aided detection (CAD) system to identify microcalcification
clusters (MCCs) automatically on full field digital mammograms (FFDMs). The CAD system …

Digital mammography: what do we and what don't we know?

U Bick, F Diekmann - European radiology, 2007 - Springer
High-quality full-field digital mammography has been available now for several years and is
increasingly used for both diagnostic and screening mammography. A number of different …

The AAPM/RSNA physics tutorial for residents: search for isotropic resolution in CT from conventional through multiple-row detector

M Mahesh - Radiographics, 2002 - pubs.rsna.org
Computed tomography (CT) is a method of acquiring and reconstructing the image of a thin
cross section on the basis of measurements of attenuation. In comparison with conventional …

Experimental investigation of the dose and image quality characteristics of a digital mammography imaging system

W Huda, AM Sajewicz, KM Ogden… - Medical physics, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
Our purpose in this study was to investigate the image quality and absorbed dose
characteristics of a digital mammography imaging system with a CsI scintillator, and to …