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Review

Update on new technologies in digital mammography

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Pages 781-788 | Published online: 14 Aug 2014

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Figure 1 The four breast parenchymal patterns.

Notes: (A) Fatty; (B) scattered; (C) heterogeneously dense; (D) extremely dense.
Figure 1 The four breast parenchymal patterns.

Figure 2 Diagram of the digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) system.

Figure 2 Diagram of the digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) system.

Figure 3 Cancer more evident with tomosynthesis.

Notes: (A) Craniocaudal view of screening digital mammogram. No abnormality is evident. (B) Digital breast tomosynthesis slice of the same patient, in the same position, depicts a spiculated mass in central breast not evident in the screening mammogram view. Proven invasive ductal carcinoma (arrow).
Figure 3 Cancer more evident with tomosynthesis.