Dedicated Breast Computed Tomography: The Optimal Cross-Sectional Imaging Solution?

Radiologic Clinics of North America

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1043-1054

  Lindfors, Karen K ^a   Boone, John M ^a   Newell, Mary S ^b   D'Orsi, Carl J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dedicated breast computed tomography; Digital breast tomosynthesis; Full field digital mammography; Stereoscopic digital mammography

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

AREA UNDER THE CURVE; BREAST CALCIFICATION; BREAST CANCER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER SCREENING; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMPUTER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONCEPT FORMATION; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DEDICATED BREAST COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIGITAL BREAST TOMOSYNTHESIS; DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY; ECHOMAMMOGRAPHY; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MAMMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STEREORADIOGRAPHY; WHOLE BODY SCANNER; ADULT; AGED; BREAST DISEASES; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC USE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; IMAGE QUALITY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; NEEDLE BIOPSY; PROCEDURES; RADIOGRAPHY; RISK ASSESSMENT; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; BREAST DISEASES; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CONTRAST MEDIA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MAMMOGRAPHY; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, MAMMARY;

EID: 77956910153     PISSN: 00338389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rcl.2010.06.001     Document Type: Review

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