Thursday 15 December 2011

Challenges in mammography Part I: Artifacts in digital mammography

Challenges in mammography Part I: Artifacts in digital mammography. AJR, Dec 2011, Vol 197(6), p. W1023-W1030

Geiser, W.R., et al.

http://www.ajronline.org/content/197/6/W1023.abstract?rss=1

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.