Volumetric breast composition analysis: reproducibility of breast percent density and fibroglandular tissue volume measurements in serial mammograms.

CONCLUSION: Volumetric breast composition analysis is highly reproducible in serial mammograms in normal women. FTV is a more reproducible parameter than PD, indicating that absolute quantification of breast parenchyma may be preferable to the measurement of relative parameters such as PD. However, a disadvantage of using FTV is that it is susceptible to systematic differences when measurements are obtained on different imaging platforms.
PMID: 23878356 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Acta Radiologica - July 22, 2013 Category: Radiology Authors: Engelken F, Singh JM, Fallenberg EM, Bick U, Böttcher J, Renz DM Tags: Acta Radiol Source Type: research