Digital Mammography: Improvements in Breast Cancer Diagnostic
- Centro de Investigacion y de Estudios Avanzados del IPN, Mexico City (Mexico)
X-ray mammography is the most sensitive imaging technique for early detection of breast cancer (diagnostics). It is performed by a radiological system equipped with a rotating molybdenum (Mo) anode tube with an additional Mo filter. In the production of X-ray, bremsstrahlung photons produce an intense diffuse radiation, affecting the contrast between normal and cancerous tissue. So it is known that a good mammographic imaging can help to detect cancer in the first stages avoiding surgery, amputation or even death. In the last years there has been some developments in new imaging techniques to improve the contrast spatial resolution between different tissues: digital imaging, or the so call digital mammography. Digital mammographic imaging is considered an improvement in the prevention of breast cancer due to the advantages it offers.
- OSTI ID:
- 20787694
- Journal Information:
- AIP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 809, Issue 1; Conference: EAV05: Advanced summer school in physics 2005: Frontiers in contemporary physics, Mexico City (Mexico), 11-22 Jul 2005; Other Information: DOI: 10.1063/1.2160995; (c) 2006 American Institute of Physics; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0094-243X
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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