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Biomedicine
Research from A.H. Tyson and co-authors provides new data about biomedicine
March 17th, 2009
According to a study from Toronto, Canada, "The determination of volumetric breast density (VBD) from mammograms requires accurate knowledge of the thickness of the compressed breast. In attempting to accurately determine VBD from images obtained on conventional mammography systems, the authors found that the thickness reported by a number of mammography systems in the field varied by as much as 15 mm when compressing the same breast or phantom." "In order to evaluate the behavior of mammographic compression systems and to be able to predict the thickness at different locations in the breast on patients, they have developed a method for measuring the local thickness of...
Source: Cancer Weekly (2009-03-17)
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