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digital mammography

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digital mammography
Imaging The capture of mammographic images on a digital grid Pros ↑ resolution and clarity than conventional mammography; DM is of use as a screening technique, and allows faster, earlier, and more accurate detection of early breast abnormalities


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Byline: ANI Washington, Aug 4 (ANI): Researchers at San Luis Diagnostic Center in San Luis Obispo, California, have found that the use of digital mammography equipment alone is responsible for an increased number of breast cancers detected at a community-based mammography facility.
GE Healthcare has opened a new $165 million factory in upstate New York to build state-of-the-art digital mammography machines.
Women in Warwickshire, Solihull and Coventry were already some of the first in the country to benefit from digital mammography equipment when it was introduced at University Hospital in 2006.
 
 
 
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