Why would T-scan imaging be used if breast ultrasound is available?
Breast ultrasound is also used as an adjunctive tool with mammography. Breast ultrasound can be particularly useful to characterize lesions, such as determining solid versus cystic (fluid filled) masses. However, ultrasound’s sensitivity is limited by tumor size. Ultrasound detection of tumors smaller than 1 cm in size may be difficult. However, detection of small breast tumors is extremely important because that is when treatment is most effective. T-scan imaging works particularly well in identifying this class of small tumors.
