title: Microcalcifications of breast tissue: appearance on synchrotron radiation imaging with 6-microm resolution.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The purpose of this study was to use synchrotron radiation imaging with 6-microm resolution to evaluate amorphous and pleomorphic breast tissue microcalcifications.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Synchrotron radiation imaging depicted microcalcifications as small as 24 microm. Imaging with this technique revealed that most amorphous and pleomorphic calcifications on conventional mammograms are clusters of fine specks and that in addition to the shape or density of a speck, the distribution density of clustered specks is a factor determining the apparent shape.
authors: Department of Radiology, St. Marianna University School of Medicine, 2-16-1 Sugao, Miyamae-ward, Kawasaki, Kanagawa 216-8511, Japan. keiko401@marianna-u.ac.jp
authors: Keiko
authors: K
authors: Imamura
authors: Norishige
authors: N
authors: Ehara
authors: Yoichi
authors: Y
authors: Inada
authors: Yoshihide
authors: Y
authors: Kanemaki
authors: Joji
authors: J
authors: Okamoto
authors: Ichiro
authors: I
authors: Maeda
authors: Keiko
authors: K
authors: Miyamoto
authors: Haruki
authors: H
authors: Ogata
authors: Hisanori
authors: H
authors: Kawamoto
authors: Yasuo
authors: Y
authors: Nakajima
authors: Mamoru
authors: M
authors: Fukuda
authors: Keiji
authors: K
authors: Umetani
authors: Kentarou
authors: K
authors: Uesugi
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001941:Breast Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D002114:Calcinosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D066298:In Vitro Techniques; D008327:Mammography; D008875:Middle Aged; D017356:Synchrotrons