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Calcifications at Digital Breast Tomosynthesis: Imaging Features and Biopsy Techniques.
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- Deep learning, radiomics and radiogenomics applications in the digital breast tomosynthesis: a systematic review.BMC bioinformatics · 2023Pooled it
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- Association of CA12 with calcification in ER+/HER-2 negative breast cancer.Discover oncology · 2026Article
- Extranodal marginal zone lymphoma presenting as a skin-based breast finding detected on screening mammography.Radiology case reports · 2026Article
- Findings of suspicious calcifications on contrast-enhanced mammography and their pathological correlation.Diagnostic and interventional radiology (Ankara, Turkey) · 2026Article
- A rare case of involuting fibroadenoma in a young premenopausal female.Radiology case reports · 2026Article
- Impact of synthetic data on training a deep learning model for lesion detection and classification in contrast-enhanced mammography.Journal of medical imaging (Bellingham, Wash.) · 2025Article
- In-vitro Detection of Intramammary-like Macrocalcifications Using Susceptibility-weighted MR Imaging Techniques at 1.5T.Magnetic resonance in medical sciences : MRMS : an official journal of Japan Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine · 2025Article
- The role and potential of digital breast tomosynthesis in neoadjuvant systemic therapy evaluation for optimising breast cancer management: a pictorial essay.The British journal of radiology · 2025Review
- Comparison of two visual localization biopsy methods for suspicious breast lesions under mammography: a multicenter cohort study.Quantitative imaging in medicine and surgery · 2025Article
- A Novel Phantom for Standardized Microcalcification Detection Developed Using a Crystalline Growth System.Tomography (Ann Arbor, Mich.) · 2025Article
- An automated toolbox for microcalcification cluster modeling for mammographic imaging.Medical physics · 2025Article
- Optimized signal of calcifications in wide-angle digital breast tomosynthesis: a virtual imaging trial.European radiology · 2024Article
- Greater benefits of deep learning-based computer-aided detection systems for finding small signals in 3D volumetric medical images.Journal of medical imaging (Bellingham, Wash.) · 2024Article
- Impact of the systematic introduction of tomosynthesis on breast biopsies: 10 years of results.La Radiologia medica · 2023Article
- [Mammography-Guided Interventional Procedure].Journal of the Korean Society of Radiology · 2023Review
- Benign Breast Disease, NSAIDs, and Postmenopausal Breast Cancer Risk in the CPS-II Cohort.Cancer prevention research (Philadelphia, Pa.) · 2023Article
- Clinical performance of digital breast tomosynthesis-guided vacuum-assisted biopsy: a single-institution experience in Japan.BMC medical imaging · 2023Article
- The ability of digital breast tomosynthesis to reduce additional examinations in older women.Frontiers in medicine · 2023Article
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Abstract
Full-field digital mammography (FFDM), the standard of care for breast cancer screening, has some limitations. With the advent of digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT), improvements including decreased recall rates and increased cancer detection rates have been observed. The quasi-three-dimensional capability of DBT reduces breast tissue overlap, a significant limitation of FFDM. However, early studies demonstrate that a few cancers detected at FFDM may not be diagnosed at DBT-only screening, and lesions with calcifications as the dominant feature may look less suspicious at DBT or not be visible at all. These findings support the use of combined FFDM and DBT protocols to optimize screening performance. However, this combination would approximately double the patient's radiation exposure. The development of computer algorithms that generate two-dimensional synthesized mammography (SM) views from DBT has improved calcification conspicuity and sensitivity. Therefore, SM may substitute for FFDM in screening protocols, reducing radiation exposure. DBT plus SM demonstrates significantly better performance than that of FFDM alone, although there are reports of missed malignant calcifications. Thus, some centers continue to perform FFDM with DBT. Use of DBT in breast imaging has also necessitated the development of DBT-guided biopsy. DBT-guided biopsy may have a higher success rate than that of stereotactic biopsy, with a shorter procedure time. While DBT brings substantial improvements to breast cancer imaging, it is important to be aware of its strengths and limitations regarding detection of calcifications. This article reviews the imaging appearance of breast calcifications at DBT, discusses calcification biopsy techniques, and provides an overview of the current literature. Online supplemental material is available for this article.
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