Breast Imaging
Women's health news related to breast imaging, including mammography, breast MRI, automated breast ultrasound (ABUS), breast ultrasound, breast biopsy, and positron emission mammography (PEM). This channel also includes news on breast density and the issues it causes in detecting cancers. Mammography can be broken into two types of systems. 2-D full field digital mammography (FFDM) have almost completely replaced older X-ray film based systems. The newest generation systems use 3-D tomosynthesis mammography technology, where a series of digital images are shot in an arch around the breasts and a computer reconstructs the images into slices that can be scrolled through to see layers of tissue. This allows easier radiology reading of images, especially in women with dense breasts, because it can cancers where there are several layers of thick breast tissue that can mask cancers on 2-D mammography. Tomo is rapidly replacing FFDM.
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News | Mammography | May 22, 2020
May 22, 2020 — Telephone outreach coupled with scheduling assistance significantly increased screening mammography set-...
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News | Breast Imaging | May 19, 2020
May 19, 2020 — Women with mammographically detected breast lesions that are probably benign should have follow-up...
Kubtec hosts a Podcast: Impact of COVID-19 on Breast Cancer Treatment with Andrea Madrigrano, M.D., as part of its public service campaign.
News | Coronavirus (COVID-19) | May 06, 2020
May 6, 2020 — The COVID-19 pandemic is an unprecedented global health crisis, impacting all aspects of life and society...
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Videos | Artificial Intelligence | November 11, 2020
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is becoming more common place in radiology practices, and emerging technologies are...
News | Radiation Therapy | April 22, 2020
April 22, 2020 — IntraOp Medical Corporation announced the first patient enrolled in the Cosmopolitan Trial: A...
News | Women's Health | April 17, 2020
April 17, 2020 — Ikonopedia announced the completion of an implementation of its structured breast reporting and risk...
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News | Breast Imaging | April 13, 2020
April 13, 2020 — The American Society of Breast Surgeons (ASBrS), the National Accreditation Program for Breast Centers...
Table 1. Compared to 2-D mammography, which yields four images per patient, digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT), or 3-D mammography, produces hundreds of images per patient. While this provides more information for clinicians, the exponential increase in data can result in reader fatigue and burnout, which may ultimately affect patient care.
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Figure 1. R MLO view from four different years. The skin mole is marked with a circular skin marker (TomoSPOT REF# 782, Beekley Medical) on the far-left image. These images demonstrate the potential for significant variability in location of the skin lesion due to movability of the skin during positioning.
Sponsored Content | Case Study | Breast Imaging | April 09, 2020
Christina Jacobs, M.D., Director of Breast Imaging (Bronson Health System) is always looking for ways to work more...
News | Breast Imaging | April 07, 2020
April 7 2020 — Volpara Solutions announced it is collaborating with DetectED-X, an online radiology training and...
Feature | Breast Imaging | April 06, 2020 | By Samir Parikh
A recent study earlier this year in the journal Nature, which included researchers from Google Health London,...
Breast density is divided into four categories, from lowest to highest amounts of fibroglandular tissue composition. Category A: Almost entirely fatty (least amount of fibroglandular tissue). Category B: Scattered fibroglandular tissue. Category C: Heterogeneously dense. Category D: Extremely dense (most amount of fibroglandular tissue).
Feature | Breast Density | April 03, 2020 | By Dayna Williams M.D., Shivani Chaudhry, M.D., and Laurie R. Margolies, M.D.
Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women, and, for women in their forties, the leading cause of premature death...
News | Mammography | March 25, 2020
March 25, 2020 — The Division of Mammography Quality Standards (DMQS) has received numerous inquiries regarding COVID-...
News | Society of Breast Imaging (SBI) | March 16, 2020
March 16, 2020 — The 2020 Society of Breast Imaging/American College of Radiology (SBI/ACR) annual symposium has been...
Images in a 57-year-old woman noted to have "good prognosis" invasive cancer detected at digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) screening. (a) Craniocaudal view of the left breast obtained with the two-dimensional digital mammography (DM) portion of the DM/DBT screening study demonstrates a subtle area of distortion in the medial left breast. (b) Single-slice image from the left craniocaudal DBT portion of the screening study shows an area of bridging distortion (circle). (c) Electronically enlarged image of the area of concern seen on the left craniocaudal view in a single DBT slice as shown in b. (d) Targeted US scan demonstrates two small adjacent irregular solid masses. US-guided core biopsy yielded an invasive carcinoma of the tubular subtype that was estrogen receptor positive, progesterone receptor positive, and human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 negative. The results of the sentinel node biopsy were negative. Image courtesy of the Radiological Society of North America
News | Breast Imaging | March 11, 2020
March 11, 2020 — A new study published in the journal Radiology has found that the advantages of digital breast...
Example: SoftVue image stacks of sound speed, as shown for cases ranging across the four Breast Imaging Reporting and Data System (BI-RADS) breast density categories ((a), fatty; (b), scattered; (c), heterogeneously dense; (d), extremely dense). Note the quantitative scale indicating that absolute measurements are obtained. Image courtesy of MDPI
News | Breast Imaging | March 10, 2020
Study Finds Potential of Whole Breast Ultrasound Tomography to Improve Breast Cancer Risk Assessment
March 10, 2020 — Delphinus Medical Technologies, Inc., a leader in advanced breast ultrasound technology, announced...
Researchers who participated in the DM (digital mammography) DREAM Challenge.
News | Mammography | March 07, 2020
March 7, 2020 — The study is based on the results obtained in the Digital Mammography (DM) DREAM Challenge, an...
Christopher Comstock, M.D., (Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center) is the lead author of a paper in JAMA that reports that abbreviated breast MRI detected significantly more (almost 2 and a half times as many) breast cancers than digital breast tomosynthesis (3-D mammography) in average-risk women with dense breasts. Photo courtesy of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
News | Breast Imaging | February 26, 2020
February 26, 2020 — According to a study published recently in the Journal of the American Medical Association,...
News | Mammography | February 25, 2020
February 25, 2020 — According to newly published research in an article titled Continuation of Annual Screening...
News | Radiology Business | February 19, 2020
February 19, 2020 — Connectiv, a division of The Software and Information Industry Association (SIIA), has announced...
News | Breast Imaging | February 18, 2020
February 18, 2020 — KUB Technologies, a U.S. medical device company that develops digital technologies used in the...
