Description

Practical Digital Mammography provides breast imagers with a systematic, problem-solving approach to detecting and assessing the most subtle signs of breast cancer malignancies. The book opens with concise coverage of the fundamentals, including physics, equipment, and normal anatomy. Separate chapters provide straightforward descriptions and clear illustrations of the digital mammographic characteristics of benign and malignant calcifications, masses, asymmetry, and architectural distortion. The author presents the clinical workup of the most difficult mammographic findings and provides recommendations about the optimizing the techniques for localizing each finding.

Features:

• 103 illustrated cases help readers gain a firm understanding of how to interpret digital mammographic findings
• Summary tables provide succinct descriptions of digital mammographic findings correlated to the American College of Radiology's BI-RAD assessment categories
• Practical discussion of the advantages of digital mammography over screen-film techniques and equipment enables readers to compare technologies and systems
• Pearls and Pitfalls review key points and considerations With its broad coverage and emphasis on clinical techniques, this book is indispensable for radiologists, residents, and technologists confronting the challenges of a digital mammographic imaging center.

This concise textbook covers the fundamentals of digital mammography with an emphasis on image analysis...chapters are organized by morphology and are illustrated by case studies with clear photographs. Each case study has a succinct and easy-to-understand description of radiologic findings and diagnosis and concludes with a Pearls and Pitfalls bulleted list...The case studies not only will help radiologists become familiar with assessing digital mammograms, but they also will help mammographers build their breast pathology knowledge.--Radiologic TechnologyA practical approach to digital mammography...a welcome addition to the breast imaging field...clinically relevant chapters...well written in an easy-to-comprehend manner...pertinent and up-to-date references...a concise, informative, and practical guide.--American Journal of Roentgenology...A practical book that provides information about digital mammographic physics and equipment which will allow one to intelligently compare technologies and systems.-- ETDE - Energy Database