Tuesday, 28 April 2009

Full-Field Digital versus Screen-Film Mammography: Comparison within the UK Breast Screening Program and Systematic Review of Published Data

Full-Field Digital versus Screen-Film Mammography: Comparison within the UK Breast Screening Program and Systematic Review of Published Data
Sarah Vinnicombe, Snehal M. Pinto Pereira, Valerie A. McCormack, Susan Shiel, Nick Perry, and Isabel M. dos Santos Silva
Radiology 2009;251 347-358

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We found similar cancer detection rates for screen-film mammography (SFM) and full-field digital mammography (FFDM) using hard-copy image reading; meta-analysis of published data, along with our UK study findings, showed that FFDM performed, in terms of process measures, at least as well as conventional SFM

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