Mean glandular dose in a breast screening programme

Journal Article · Tue Oct 23 04:00:00 EDT 2012 · AIP Conference Proceedings

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4764591· OSTI ID:22075686

Galvan, H A; Perez-Badillo, M P; Villasenor, Y ^[1]

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1. Instituto Nacional de Cancerologia, Av. San Fernando No. 22, Col Seccion XVI, Mexico, D. F., C. P. 14080 (Mexico)

Breast density has an important role in early detection of breast cancer, because has been reported the strong association between breast density and invasive breast cancer risk. Mammography is the gold standard to early detection of breast cancer, despite of this require ionizing radiation that may increase radio-induced cancer risk. This maybe limited with a quality control programme of mammographic units, with the main goal of achieving high quality images with low radiation dose. International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) published in 2011 the {sup Q}uality assurance programme for digital mammography{sup ,} where glandular tissue quantity is an important parameter to compute mean glandular dose (MGD), which is necessary to reduce its associated risk. In this work we show the first results in our country applying this protocol and studying breast density in a small group. MGD complies with national and IAEA dose limits.

• OSTI ID: 22075686
• Journal Information: AIP Conference Proceedings, Journal Name: AIP Conference Proceedings Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 1494; ISSN 0094-243X; ISSN APCPCS
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

61 RADIATION PROTECTION AND DOSIMETRY
BIOMEDICAL RADIOGRAPHY
CONTROL SYSTEMS
DENSITY
DOSE LIMITS
DOSIMETRY
IAEA
IMAGE PROCESSING
IMAGES
IONIZING RADIATIONS
MAMMARY GLANDS
NEOPLASMS
QUALITY ASSURANCE
QUALITY CONTROL
RADIATION DOSES