Abstract: After completing this update on digital mammography, readers will: Understand some limitations of film-screen mammography. Know the potential advantages and disadvantages of digital mammography. Compare and contrast some different digital mammography systems. Describe how digital images are captured, processed, displayed and stored. Know how digital mammography affects radiation dose, exposure time and contrast resolution. Understand how digital images are transmitted. Be familiar with new techniques that build on digital mammography, such as 3-D mammography, digital subtraction mammography and computer-aided detection.
Publication Year: 2002
Publication Date: 2002-06-07
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['pubmed']
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