Comparison of full-field digital mammography and film-screen mammography: Image quality and lesion detection

British Journal of Radiology

Volumn 78, Issue 928, 2005, Pages 312-315

  Fischmann, A ^a   Siegmann, K C ^a   Wersebe, A ^a   Claussen, C D ^a   Muller Schimpfle M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b Eye Hospital   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST AREOLA; BREAST CALCIFICATION; BREAST CANCER; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIGITAL RADIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAMMOGRAPHY; NIPPLE; RADIATION DOSE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RATING SCALE; X RAY FILM;

ADULT; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CALCINOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 17144399553     PISSN: 00071285     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1259/bjr/33317317     Document Type: Article

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