Womens Imaging: Page 131

Adding digital tomo to mammography boosts cancer detection rate

By Rebekah Moan

VIENNA - Adding digital breast tomosynthesis to digital mammography increased the breast cancer detection rate from 1.26% to 2.03%, in a study from Spain presented on Monday at ECR 2013.

March 11, 2013

Utilizing MR for dense breasts saves biopsies, money

By Rebekah Moan

VIENNA - Adding dense breasts as a new standard indication for MR mammography in cases with unclear findings could ward off approximately 88% of biopsies and end up saving insurance companies money, according to research presented on Sunday morning at ECR 2013.

March 9, 2013

Excitement builds over digital breast tomosynthesis

By Rebekah Moan

VIENNA - Will digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) replace mammography for breast cancer screening? The answer depends on how well the modality performs in some forthcoming clinical trials, according to two experts in Sunday's special focus session at ECR 2013.

March 9, 2013

Including menopause as factor aids breast US performance

By Rebekah Moan

VIENNA - Menopause has an important influence on breast elasticity as measured by elasticity parameters, according to study results presented this week at ECR 2013. Taking this factor into consideration may help improve the diagnostic performance of breast sonoelastography, the researchers found.

March 8, 2013

Debate ignites over breast MRI's added value

By Philip Ward

VIENNA - Researchers from the Netherlands found that 3-tesla breast MRI of mammographically detected microcalcifications is of added diagnostic value, but only by expert radiologists, according to a presentation during the breast scientific session on Thursday at ECR 2013. However, their findings were challenged by a member of the audience.

March 7, 2013

IMS presents breast tomosynthesis research at ECR

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Italian women's imaging vendor Internazionale Medico Scientifica (IMS) is highlighting research on digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) using its Giotto device at ECR 2013.

March 6, 2013

Breast cancer screening in Austria: A new approach to early detection

By Dr. Oswald Graf

VIENNA - With the exception of some local pilot projects, early breast cancer detection in Austria has depended upon opportunistic breast cancer screening in individual radiology practices. But in October, organized mammography screening will be introduced, utilizing the robust existing infrastructure of local radiology practices. Performing screening exams in locations all over the country should help achieve high rates of participation.

March 6, 2013

US elastography, contrast-enhanced mammography, MR spectroscopy: Which offers the most promise?

By Rebekah Moan

VIENNA - Mammography is an imperfect modality, so it makes sense that radiologists are on the lookout for something better, or at least something to supplement the technique. Thursday's refresher course covers functional imaging of the breast and goes into detail about ultrasound elastography, contrast-enhanced mammography, and MRI diffusion, perfusion, and spectroscopy, which may supplement mammography or replace it altogether.

March 6, 2013

Matakina to present Volpara research at ECR

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Breast density software developer Matakina International is highlighting five abstracts to be presented at the upcoming ECR 2013 in Vienna that show that the company's Volpara objective breast density measurement software helps overcome the limitations of mammography for women with dense breasts.

March 5, 2013

Norwegians evaluate psychological impact of mammo recalls

By Rebekah Moan

Recall after mammography is associated with transiently increased anxiety, as might be expected, but Norwegian researchers also found that four weeks after screening the level of anxiety was the same and depression was lower compared with the general population. They reported their findings in the March issue of the European Journal of Cancer.

March 4, 2013

Standalone mammo CAD uncovers screening misses

By Erik L. Ridley

A breast computer-aided detection (CAD) system can be deployed to improve screening efficacy by independently identifying suspicious nonreferred cases, Dutch researchers have found. A standalone CAD system could have detected more than 10% of breast cancer cases that had been missed at double reading.

March 3, 2013

Austrians provide boost for digital telemammography

By Cynthia E. Keen

Compared with teleradiology, implementation of telemammography has been held back by vendor-related technical limitations of some diagnostic workstations and lack of affordable data networks capable of transmitting large uncompressed mammography images. Researchers from Vienna have now given a boost to the technology's viability.

February 26, 2013

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