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Mammography Regulation and Reimbursement Report (Single Article)

Tomosynthesis would reduce compression, study says
November 2002

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Dan Kopans, MD, isn’t sure he can get away with it, but he’ll sure as heck try. Kopans, director of breast imaging at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, hopes that a new imaging tool will soon allow mammographers to do just one compression. “We won’t need to do the two projections (necessary for mammography) because we will have three-dimensional information.”The tool, according to Kopans, promises to eliminate 25% of callbacks, detect cancer without noise from the film screen image, and show calcium very close to subtle lesions not visible with con

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