Dedicated Cone-beam CT for breast study ............
Cone-beam breast CT can be used to image the entire breast from chest wall to nipple with sufficient spatial and contrast resolution for detection of masses and calcifications at a radiation dose within the range of that of conventional mammography.this image shows A forty-two-year-old woman with palpable lump in upper outer breast. No abnormality was present on mammographical (a) R CC (b) R MLO views (c) biopsy of sonographical mass demonstrated invasive ductal carcinoma. CBBCT demonstrates mass with convex margins arising from glandular tissue in the posterior lateral breast/axilla in both (d) transverse (e) sagittal 1-mm thick sections, which approximate CC and MLO views, respectively. This article is published in Journal of Clinical Imaging Science .
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