Digital breast tomosynthesis in the diagnostic environment: A subjective side-by-side review

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 195, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Hakim, Christiane M ^a   Chough, Denise M ^a   Ganott, Marie A ^a   Sumkin, Jules H ^a   Zuley, Margarita L ^a   Gur, David ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Diagnostic workup; Digital breast tomosynthesis; Digital mammography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST HYPERPLASIA; BREAST PAPILLOMA; BREAST TUMOR; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGITAL BREAST TOMOSYNTHESIS; DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIODIAGNOSIS; RADIOGRAPHY; RADIOLOGIST; AGED; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVALUATION STUDY; FEMALE; IMAGE QUALITY; MAMMOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77955620924     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: 15463141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.09.3244     Document Type: Article

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