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Mammography

Breast cancer is a major problem and the most common cancer among women. Early detection of breast cancer is viewed as the best hope to decrease breast cancer mortality. It is universally accepted that mammography is the most efficient tool for the early detection of breast cancer. However, many limitations of mammography have been reported and about 30% of breast cancers are still missed in traditional mammography. With traditional two-dimensional digital mammography technique, three-dimensional object information is projected onto the detector to generate the two-dimensional images. Overlapped anatomical structures will be shown as superimposed. It is difficult to detect some breast cancer cases, especially for dense breast cases. Improving breast imaging technologies may permit breast cancer to be detected at a smaller size and earlier stage, thereby reducing the number of women who die with such cancer.

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