title: Challenges in mammography: part 1, artifacts in digital mammography.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Early detection of breast cancer is directly related to the radiologist's ability to detect abnormalities visible only on mammograms. Artifacts on mammograms reduce image quality and may present clinical and technical difficulties for the radiologist, mammography technologist, medical physicist, and equipment service personnel.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  In this article, we will illustrate the appearance of artifacts in full field digital mammography, review the causes of these artifacts, and discuss methods to eliminate artifacts in digital mammography.
authors: Department of Imaging Physics, University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, 77030, USA. wgeiser@mdanderson.org
authors: William R
authors: WR
authors: Geiser
authors: Tamara Miner
authors: TM
authors: Haygood
authors: Lumarie
authors: L
authors: Santiago
authors: Tanya
authors: T
authors: Stephens
authors: Debra
authors: D
authors: Thames
authors: Gary J
authors: GJ
authors: Whitman
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D016477:Artifacts; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D042241:Early Diagnosis; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008327:Mammography / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D011857:Radiographic Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted