Digital Mammography : A Practical Approach


Gary J. Whitman
Bok Engelsk 2013 · Electronic books.
Annen tittel
Medvirkende
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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2013
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1 online resource (206 p.)
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Description based upon print version of record.. - Contents; Contributors; Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1 Detectors for digital mammography; Introduction; Image quality metrics; Indirect conversion with prompt readout; Scintillator; Photodetector; Direct conversion; Digital cassette mammography; Photon-counting mammography; Current status and future trends; Acknowledgments; Disclosures; Chapter 2 Image acquisition; Introduction; Physics of digital mammography; Image acquistion; Digital detectors; Film-screen versus digital mammography; Final thoughts; Chapter 3 Preparing digital mammography images for interpretation; Introduction. - Failure of skin-line processing algorithm. - Image processing in digital mammographyIntensity windowing; Unsharp masking; Peripheral equalization; Contrast-limited adaptive histogram equalization; Digital mammography soft-copy and hard-copy display; Soft-copy hanging protocols and image annotation; Chapter 4 Image display and visualization in digital mammography; Introduction; Image display workstations for digital mammography; Monitors used in digital mammography; Classification and quality standards for monitors in digital mammography; QC and QA for image display devices in PACS; Chapter 5 PACS, storage, and archiving; Introduction. - Languages and communicationHealth Level 7 (HL7); Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM); Hardware; Network infrastructure; Storage infrastructure; Redundant array of independent (or inexpensive) disks (RAID); Storage tiers; The archiving and backup process; Parameters that play a significant role in image archival/retrieval; Image size; Processed versus raw images; Growth and new technology; Data compression; Data transmission/telecommunications; Telecommunications carrier considerations; Security; Evaluating and assessing a current or future archive system; Availability. - Positive predictive valueReproducibility; Microcalcifications and DCIS; Conclusion; Chapter 8 Artifacts in digital mammography; Introduction; Classification of artifacts in digital mammography; Detector-related artifacts; Single dead detector elements; Multiple dead detector elements; Misread lines; Banding artifacts; Ghosting artifacts; Gantry-related artifacts; Foreign material on the compression paddle; Grid artifacts; Improper collimation; Patient-related artifacts; Patient motion; Unwanted anatomy; Foreign substances on the patient ́s skin; Processing-related artifacts. - ScalabilityFault tolerance; Security; Integration; System management; Performance; Data migration; The archiving history of our facility: a case study; Chapter 6 Interpretation of digital screening mammography; Introduction; Time utilized; Choice of image size and hanging protocols; Post-processing at the monitor; CADe or double reading; Reading environment; Conclusions; Chapter 7 Efficacy of digital screening mammography; Introduction; Equipment; Study methodology; Measures of efficacy: sensitivity and specificity; Alternative measures of efficacy; Cancer detection rate; Recall rate. - Current, practical, clinical information on every aspect of digital mammography, to aid radiologists and physicists using this technology.
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