Publication Year: 2012
Edition: 1
Authors/Editor: Whitman/Haygood
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 978-0-52-176372-1
Doody's Star Rating®:
Score: 100Written by expert radiologists and physicists.
Digital Mammography: A Practical Approach compares digital mammography to conventional film-screen mammography, reviews clinical cases and explores newer modalities.
Key topics include:
Digital detectors
Monitors
Image acquisition
Image storage, retrieval and transfer
Image interpretation and efficacy
Artifacts
A comparison of commercially available systems
Mobile digital mammography.
An image atlas and sections on digital tomosynthesis and computed tomography of the breast enhance the text. Digital Mammography: A Practical Approach melds the worlds of clinical radiology and physics in an easy-to-understand, practical resource. A valuable addition to the shelf of radiologists, radiologic technicians, practising medical physicists and mammography technologists; and any practitioners developing and expanding digital mammography programs.