What makes Digital Mammography different from the older film type?
• Better visibility of the breast, particularly near the skin line, the chest wall and in women with dense breast tissue. • Exams that take less than half the time. An average exam can now take 10 to 15 minutes versus 30 or more minutes for traditional film-based mammograms. • Fewer callbacks for patients. The ability to generate images within seconds and the flexibility to magnify and manipulate those images eliminates many of the callbacks that are necessary with traditional film-based mammography systems. • Electronic records of patient images mean easier retrieval and transmission of patient information to healthcare providers. MCD breast imaging is even further advanced with Digital Mammography through the use of “Computer Aided Detection” or CAD. Computer aided detection (CAD) provides our radiologists with “a second pair of eyes” when reading a woman’s mammogram. Similar to a spell checker system on a personal computer, this technology has the potential to detect findings that m
