Digital Mammography
The readout thickness versus the measured thickness for a range of screen film mammography (SFM) and full field digital mammography (FFDM) units
... and mammography unit ...film mammography (SFM) and full-field digital mammography (FFDM) units (8 units in total; 6 different models/manufacturers) for two different sized paddles and two ...
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Comparison of Image Quality Criteria between Digital Storage Phosphor Plate in Mammography and Full-Field Digital Mammography in the Detection of Breast Cancer
... with digital mammography. Ultimately, the goal of the chosen digital modality is based on its higher performance in detecting and diagnosing breast cancer with the intention of reducing mortality ...
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The added value of digital breast tomosynthesis over digital mammography in the assessment of BIRADS 0 and 3 breast lesions
... breasts. Digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) is a recent addition to the equipment used for digital mammography in which the breast is compressed, as with conventional 2D mammography, between a ...
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Determination of Tube Output (kVp) and Exposure Mode for Breast Phantom of Various Thicknesses/Glandularity for Digital Mammography
... Although a high kVp (32–34) contributed to a lower radiation dose, it is important to investigate the image quality resulting from the exposure. In this study, FOM and the CDMAM phantom were used to assess image quality. ...
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Usefulness of grayscale inverted images in addition to standard images in digital mammography
... all mammography centers facilitate double reading or CAD ...via digital mammography without CAD. In view of the fact that digital mammog- raphy is a digitalized system, digitalization allows ...
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An investigation of the imaging performance of CCD based x-ray detectors for digital mammography
... for digital mammography still presents a few fundzimental limitations such as their relatively small size and the need to eliminate direct ...in mammography or the area necessary to cover the ...
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Initial Experience with Contrast Enhanced Digital Mammography (SenoBright)—In a Comprehensive Clinical Breast Center
... enhanced digital mammography in our center was to evaluate the complimentary benefit of this technology with screening digital mammography and real time ultrasound in equivocal cases and high ...
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Radiation dose affected by mammographic composition and breast size: first application of a radiation dose management system for full field digital mammography in Korean women
... Relative to Western women, Korean women show sev- eral differences in breast-related characteristics, includ- ing higher rates of dense breasts and small breasts as well as a younger age of breast cancer onset [10–12]. ...
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A Comparative Study of Ant and Genetic Algorithms in Digital Mammography
... Image processing technique in general, involves the application of signal processing on the input image for isolating the individual color plane of an image. It plays an important role in the image analysis and computer ...
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An investigation into the use of charge-coupled devices for digital mammography
... A large number of multidimensional optimisations have been described for different digital mammography configurations and requirements, with the aim of maximising the image quality. These optimisations have ...
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Noise power spectrum of computed mammography and full field digital mammography
... to digital converter during image ...general digital radiography for applications that require moderate productivity, resolution and dose ...field digital mammography, FFDM (Smith, ...
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Comparison of percent density from raw and processed full field digital mammography data
... Full-field digital mammography (FFDM) is replacing film mammography, has different properties than film, and provides both raw and processed clinical display representation ...
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Update on new technologies in digital mammography
... mammography cannot fully assess all abnormalities on the basis of the two routine views. Recalls are necessary, because a possible lesion needs to be distinguished from a true lesion, but recalls can also lead to ...
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Cluster merging based on weighted Mahalanobis distance with application in digital mammography
... The covariance matrices of the generated clusters are used t o determine cluster similarity and closeness so that clusters which are similar in shape and close in Mahalanobis distance ca[r] ...
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Design, development and use of a deformable breast phantom to assess the relationship between thickness and lesion visibility in full field digital mammography
... the mammography procedure (MLO-projection) in order to obtain a balance between compression force and the tissue inclusion (Dustler, Andersson, Förnvik, & Tingberg, ...
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Overview of the radiographers’ practice in 65 healthcare centers using digital mammography systems in Portugal
... Since mammography is a diagnostic modality used most commonly for imaging female breasts, it seems natural that the healthcare staff should be mainly composed of women as this may also contribute to the patient’s ...
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Blurred digital mammography images : an analysis of technical recall and observer detection performance
... Another limitation of our study is that the normal mammography screening environment might not be fully recreated in our study. For example, practitioners working in imaging rooms often do not work in levels of ...
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Robust Contrast Enhancement for Digital Mammography
... Nowadays, mammography is currently considered as the most efficient way for the detection and diagnosis of breast cancer at early stages. In many case, due to the subtleness of the difference between normal ...
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Wavelet transform in applications in digital mammography
... to digital m am m o g rap h y involves the developm ent of im age processing an d p a tte rn recognition techniques w ith the objective of increasing the radiologist's sensitivity an d specificity of detecting b ...
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CURRENT TRENDS AND TECHNOLOGIES IN IMAGING TECHNOLOGIES FOR BREAST CANCER SCREENING
... with mammography and clinical ...of digital mammography, automated whole breast ultrasound, and MRI has shown to give very good results in detecting ductal carcinoma in situ and invasive ...
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