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Breast Cancer Screening
Monoscopic vs. stereoscopic reading for detection of breast lesions studied
September 8th, 2005
The accuracy of monoscopic vs. stereoscopic reading for detection of breast lesions was recently studied. Investigators from the United States conducted an "observer performance study to evaluate the usefulness of assessing breast lesion characteristics with stereomammography. Stereoscopic image pairs of 158 breast biopsy tissue specimens were acquired with a GE Senographe 2000D full field digital mammography system using a 1.8x magnification geometry." "A phantom-shift method equivalent to a stereo shift angle of ±3 degrees relative to a central axis perpendicular to the detector was used," wrote H.P. Chan and colleagues. "For each specimen,...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2005-09-08)
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