A Refined Quality Assurance Tool for Today's Advanced Imaging Systems.
Proven simulation technology enables the use of tissue-equivalent, realistically-shaped phantoms for mammographic quality assurance.
Resin material mimics the photon attenuation coefficients of a range of breast tissues. Average elemental comb of the human breast being mimicked is based on the individual elemental comb of adipose and glandular tissue reported by Hammerstein.
Attenuation coefficients are calculated by using the "mixture rule" and the Photon Mass Attenuation and Energy Absorption Coefficient Table of J.H. Hubbell.
Contains targets that are engineered to test the threshold of the new generation of mammography machines. 4.5 cm thick and simulates an average glandular tissue comb.
Designed to test the perbance of any mammographic system. Objects within the phantom simulate calcifications, fibrous calcifications in ducts and tumor masses. Test bs within the phantom range in size from those that should be visible on any system to bs that will be difficult to resolve on the best mammographic systems.
