Impact of X-ray Beam Filtration Materials on Image Quality in Digital Mammography
Diagnosis of cancer with a conventional mammogram can be unreliable because it may fail to detect early tumors, particularly in dense breast tissue. Digital mammography is a modern technique that improves detection accuracy and can be combined with magnetic resonance imaging. Contrast-enhanced digital mammography uses an intravenous dye and acquires a series of images that show the dye’s passage through the breast over time. This method relies on the fact that fast-growing tumors stimulate increased blood supply, causing greater dye accumulation in those regions. Although contrast-enhanced digital mammography images vascularized tumors, it remains a two-dimensional technique. Breast magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can be used as an adjunct to digital mammography and ultrasound for women with dense or heterogeneous breasts and for preoperative staging in diagnosed breast cancer, but routine MRI screening for all patients is generally not recommended.
Keywords: Breast cancer, Ultrasound, Mammogram, Materials are of digital mammography quality.
