The American College of Radiology (ACR), recently, amended their Practice Parameters for the Performance of Screening and Diagnostic Mammography with a recommendation that:
According to The Society and College of Radiology (SCoR), as a best practice, anatomical side markers should be included on all images at time of exposure for legal documentation and safety. In...
In the day to day role of a radiologist, the ability to read thoroughly and accurately is an expectation.
Friday morning, 8:00 am, my first patient arrives. A 61 year old woman with a personal history of breast cancer and a mother with postmenopausal breast cancer presents for her annual mammogram. The...
Mammography technologists are the eyes and ears of the radiologist; which makes them critically important in the breast imaging process.
The MQSA (Mammography Quality Standards Act and Program), monitored by the FDA, has been in regulation for 25 years with the primary purpose of monitoring clinical imaging quality at mammography...
What makes for an "aha" moment? For Dr. David Gruen, Director of Women's Imaging for Stamford Health (Stamford, CT), it was the realization that he and his team were working up more patients for...
"If only I knew then what I know now." A common refrain as more and more imaging centers are moving towards offering digital breast tomosynthesis or 3D mammography. Despite the amount of literature...
Are you experiencing a blurring or slinky artifact with your skin markers in digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT)? Using skin markers intended for 2-D mammography could be your culprit. DBT or 3-D...
