Hologic Breast Tomosynthesis Training Begins...

(DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING) -- Hologic readies training program for breast tomosynthesis By Greg Freiherr Before Hologic’s 3D digital mammography system can become a commercial product on the U.S. market, the company must develop a program to train physicians on how to interpret this new kind of mammogram. “It is digital mammography, so it’s nothing that new,” said Arthur Friedman, a Hologic senior vice president in charge of regulatory, clinical, and quality issues. “But there are slight differences.” When interpreting conventional digital mammography, radiologists mentally “triangulate” 2D images, said Dr. Emily Conant, a professor of radiology at the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center in Philadelphia. “Tomosynthesis allows us to scroll through the breast to see in-plane imaging at various depths,” Conant said. “With this, we can find lesions that potentially we couldn’t see before, or explain away pseudolesions that would otherwise lead to false positives.”

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