Breast Cancer Screening

Researchers from Hologic, Inc. provide details of new studies and findings in the area of breast cancer screening

Published in Medical Imaging Week, July 25th, 2009

"Digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) mammography is a promising imaging technique that has the potential to improve detection of early-stage breast cancers. Digital breast tomosynthesis mammography can provide quasi 3-dimensional information by reconstructing the breast volume from a number of low-dose mammograms acquired over a limited angular range," scientists in the United States report.

"Previous studies have shown that iterative reconstruction methods such as simultaneous algebraic reconstruction technique (SART) can give satisfactory image quality in DBT. However, because of the finite size of the detector and the limited field of view, DBT reconstruction contains...

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Source: Medical Imaging Week (2009-07-25)

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