Can radiation dose in mammography be further reduced by increasing the image quality?
Desiree O’Leary, Louise Rainford
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Desiree O’Leary, Louise Rainford
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Efforts to reduce radiation dose should be linked to and limited by image quality and the radiation dose should only be lowered to levels compatible with image quality for adequate diagnosis; this is optimisation of mammography. Despite this link between image quality and mean glandular dose (MGD), the MGD is proposed only with regard to compression level achieved or population percentile, not image quality required/achieved.
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Efforts to reduce radiation dose should be linked to and limited by image quality and the radiation dose should only be lowered to levels compatible with image quality for adequate diagnosis; this is optimisation of mammography. Despite this link between image quality and mean glandular dose (MGD), the MGD is proposed only with regard to compression level achieved or population percentile, not image quality required/achieved.
Key concepts: Radiation dose, Image quality, Mammography, Medicine, Digital mammography, Medical physics, Quality (philosophy), Population