Comparison of Acquisition Parameters and Breast Dose in Digital Mammography and Screen-Film Mammography in the American College of Radiology Imaging Network Digital Mammographic Imaging Screening Trial
R. Edward Hendrick, Etta D. Pisano, Alice Averbukh, Catherine Moran, Eric A. Berns, Martin J. Yaffe, Benjamin Herman, Suddhasatta Acharyya, and Constantine Gatsonis
AJR 2010;194:362-369
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Differences between screen-film mammography and FFDM in compression force and indicated compressed breast thickness were small. On average, FFDM had 22% lower mean glandular dose than screen-film mammography per acquired view, with sizeable variations in average FFDM doses by manufacturer
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