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Anders Tingberg

Associate professor

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Potential for lower absorbed dose in digital mammography: A JAFROC experiment using clinical hybrid images with simulated dose reduction

Author

  • Pontus Timberg
  • Mark Ruschin
  • Magnus Bath
  • Bengt Hemdal
  • Ingvar Andersson
  • Sören Mattsson
  • Dev Chakraborty
  • Rob Saunders
  • Ehsan Samei
  • Anders Tingberg

Summary, in English

Purpose: To determine how image quality linked to tumor detection is affected by reducing the absorbed dose to 50% and 30% of the clinical levels represented by an average glandular dose (AGD) level of 1.3 mGy for a standard breast according to European guidelines. Materials and methods: 90 normal, unprocessed images were acquired from the screening department using a full-field digital mammography (FFDM) unit Mammomat Novation (Siemens). Into 40 of these, one to three simulated tumors were inserted per image at various positions. These tumors represented irregular-shaped malignant masses. Dose reduction was simulated in all 90 images by adding simulated quantum noise to represent images acquired at 50% and 30% of the original dose, resulting in 270 images, which were subsequently processed for final display. Four radiologists participated in a free-response receiver operating characteristics (FROC) study in which they searched for and marked suspicious positions of the masses as well as rated their degree of suspicion of occurrence on a one to four scale. Using the jackknife FROC (JAFROC) method, a score between 0 and 1 (where 1 represents best performance), referred to as a figure-of-merit (FOM), was calculated for each dose level. Results: The FOM was 0.73, 0.70, and 0.68 for the 100%, 50% and 30% dose levels, respectively. Using Analysis of the Variance (ANOVA) to test for statistically significant differences between any two of the three FOMs revealed that they were not statistically distinguishable (p-value of 0.26). Conclusion: For the masses used in this experiment, there was no significant change in detection by increasing quantum noise, thus indicating a potential for dose reduction.

Department/s

  • Medical Radiation Physics, Malmö
  • Department of Translational Medicine

Publishing year

2006

Language

English

Pages

14614-14614

Publication/Series

Medical Imaging 2006: Image Perception, Observer Performance and Technology Assessment

Volume

6146

Document type

Conference paper

Publisher

SPIE

Topic

  • Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Medical Imaging

Keywords

  • average glandular dose
  • FROC
  • digital mammography
  • dose reduction
  • JAFROC
  • hybrid images

Conference name

Medical Imaging 2006: Image Perception, Observer Performance, and Technology Assessment

Conference date

2006-02-12 - 2006-02-14

Conference place

San Diego, Ca, United States

Status

Published

Research group

  • Medical Radiation Physics, Malmö

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1996-756X
  • ISSN: 0277-786X