The Evolution and Future of Dedicated Breast CT
Avice M. O'Connell, The Evolution and Future of Dedicated Breast CT, Breast Diseases: A Year Book Quarterly, Volume 23, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 131-133, ISSN 1043-321X, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.breastdis.2012.04.019.
Abstract
Breast computed tomography (CT) is not a new idea, but perhaps now its time has come. Recently, there has been renewed interest in this modality for a number of reasons. One reason is that 3-dimensional (3D) imaging of the breast has become the subject of great interest since the arrival on the scene of digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT), which allows for 3D reconstruction of tomographic images obtained as an extension of digital mammography. DBT was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in February 2011 and is now being introduced into many centers in the United States as well as in Europe and Canada.