New technology for mammograms
29th Nov 2005, 15:26 GMT
Filed under: Breast Cancer, Prevention Mammogram technology has gone digital. A new technique called digital tomosynthesis is currently being studied to see how it measures up against traditional mammography. The ease of tomosynthesis is that it uses digital images that can be expanded and viewed in many different ways, even thin layers of breast tissue can easily be screened using this process. The thin layers will make it possible for doctors to assess images without layers of tissue blocking the view. "The results of our preliminary trial suggest that tomosynthesis may decrease false-positive screening mammography findings by half, thereby reducing the number of women who are recalled after screening mammography for a second, more thorough exam," said lead author Steven Poplack, M.D., associate professor of diagnostic radiology and obstetrics and gynecology at the Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center/Dartmouth Medical School in Lebanon, N.H. Read Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments
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