Digital Mammography and Digital Breast Tomosynthesis.
Breast imaging technology has advanced significantly from the 1930s until the present. American women have a 1 in 8 chance of developing breast cancer. Mammography has been proven in multiple clinical trials to reduce breast cancer mortality. Although a mainstay of breast imaging and improved from film-screen mammography, digital mammography is not a perfect examination. Overlapping obscuring breast tissue limits mammographic interpretation. Breast digital tomosynthesis reduces and/or eliminates overlapping obscuring breast tissue. Although there are some disadvantages with digital breast tomosynthesis, this relatively lost-cost technology may be used effectively in the screening and diagnostic settings.
The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas.
Tanya W
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Moseley
D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000453:epidemiology; D055088:Early Detection of Cancer / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007090:Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted; D021621:Imaging, Three-Dimensional; D008327:Mammography / Q000191:economics / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D011829:Radiation Dosage; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D013997:Time Factors; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology