Breast Cancer
Studies gauge techniques for measuring breast density -- a predictor of cancer
Published in Women's Health Weekly, August 5th, 2010
Both studies were conducted by a group of medical physicists at the University of California, Irvine, led by Sabee Molloi, and they will be presented today and tomorrow at the 52nd Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) in Philadelphia, PA.
The first study compared two existing techniques for measuring breast density - cone-beam CT and breast MRI. It found that both techniques gave highly similar...
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