Quality control for digital mammography: part II. Recommendations from the ACRIN DMIST trial

• Published in: Medical physics (Lancaster) Vol. 33; no. 3; p. 737
• Main Authors: Yaffe, Martin J, Bloomquist, Aili K, Mawdsley, Gordon E, Pisano, Etta D, Hendrick, R Edward, Fajardo, Laurie L, Boone, John M, Kanal, Kalpana, Mahesh, Mahadevappa, Fleischman, Richard C, Och, Joseph, Williams, Mark B, Beideck, Daniel J, Maidment, Andrew D A
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States 01.03.2006
• Subjects: Breast - pathology; Breast Neoplasms - diagnosis; Breast Neoplasms - diagnostic imaging; Clinical Trials as Topic; Diagnostic Tests, Routine - instrumentation; Diagnostic Tests, Routine - methods; Health Planning Guidelines; Humans; Mammography - instrumentation; Mammography - methods; Phantoms, Imaging; Quality Control; Radiation Dosage; Radiographic Image Enhancement - instrumentation; Radiographic Image Enhancement - methods; Reproducibility of Results; Sensitivity and Specificity; Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted - instrumentation; X-Ray Intensifying Screens

The Digital Mammography Imaging Screening Trial (DMIST), conducted under the auspices of the American College of Radiology Imaging Network (ACRIN), is a clinical trial designed to compare the accuracy of digital versus screen-film mammography in a screening population [E. Pisano et al., ACRIN 6652-D...