Newer Technologies in Breast Cancer Imaging: Dedicated Cone-Beam Breast Computed Tomography
Avice M. O’Connell, Andrew Karellas, Srinivasan Vedantham, Daniel T. Kawakyu-O’Connor, Newer Technologies in Breast Cancer Imaging: Dedicated Cone-Beam Breast Computed Tomography,Seminars in Ultrasound, CT and MRI, Volume 39, Issue 1, 2018, Pages 106-113, ISSN 0887-2171, https://doi.org/10.1053/j.sult.2017.09.001.
Abstract
Dedicated breast computed tomography (CT) is the latest in a long history of breast imaging techniques dating back to the 1960s. Breast imaging is performed both for cancer screening as well as for diagnostic evaluation of symptomatic patients. Dedicated breast CT received US Food and Drug Administration approval for diagnostic use in 2015 and is slowly gaining recognition for its value in diagnostic 3-dimensional imaging of the breast, and also for injected contrast-enhanced imaging applications.