title: Digital mammography: current capabilities and obstacles.
abstract: Digital mammography represents an exciting new technology for breast imaging and possibly breast screening. The decoupling of functional components in digital mammography translates into potential operational efficiencies compared with screen-film mammography (SFM). Digital mammography is a platform for advanced applications not possible with traditional SFM. However, for digital mammography to replace SFM in daily clinical practice, operational and clinical hurdles will have to be overcome.
authors.affiliation: Women's Diagnostic Imaging Center, Swedish Cancer Institute, Seattle, WA 98104, USA. jay.parikh@swedish.org
authors.forename: Jay
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Parikh
mesh_terms: D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008327:Mammography / Q000191:economics* / Q000379:methods*; D019047:Phantoms, Imaging; D011857:Radiographic Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D014481:United States