With Expansion of Use of Digital Mammography Interest is Shifting to Advanced Applications

Susanne Schmitz,
Product Line Manager,
Digital, Capture Solutions


Since the mid-1990's, the mammography community has been increasingly focused on digitisation. Mammography has been one of the last areas in medical imaging to make the transition, due in part to the technical issues with making the high quality digital images to meet the challenging clinical task of breast cancer detection, the ability to effectively manage image handling and interpretation across all the steps of the mammographic examination, and the high cost of digital mammography systems.

The majority of mammograms today are still made with traditional film systems - and this will continue to be an important component of mammography imaging for many years to come - but as digital systems mature, they are becoming a viable option within the mammography center.

source article - Express Healthcare