Introduction

Tamara Miner Haygood

This chapter is an atlas of digital mammography intended to introduce the reader to the appearance of various benign and malignant entities as they may appear on digital imaging. Cases 1–17 were contributed by Robert D. Rosenberg, and cases 18–34 are from Michael N. Linver.

Dr. Rosenberg’s practice switched from film-screen mammography to computed radiographic technique using Fuji equipment with 50 mm pixel size, and approximately two years later switched again to Hologic direct digital radiographic technique with a 70 mm pixel size. Therefore, his digital images are a combination of these two image types. When it makes a difference which type of image is being shown, the Fuji computed radiographic images are designated as CR images, and the Hologic direct digital radiographic images as DR images.

Dr. Linver’s practice moved from film-screen mammography directly to Hologic direct digital mammography with a 70 mm pixel size, so all of his digital mammography images are obtained with that equipment.