Innovative Phase Contrast Imaging For Early Diagnosis of Breast Cancer
Towards a New Semiology of Breast Microcalcifications to avoid Millions of Unnecessary Macrobiopsies
Early Diagnosis of Breast Cancer
Challenged by a large uncertainty on Positive Predictive Value in ACR 4 category (2% - 95%)
Leads to overconsumption of Macrobiopsies which are :
Deleterious for the patient
Time-consuming for the doctor
Costly for the Health System
First clinical evaluation results
We have performed a first clinical evaluation on fifty breast Macro-Biopsies.
Our Phase contrast imaging technique demonstrates better performances than classic absorption technique and the main interest of these results is that our phase contrast images allow radiologists to easily characterize microcalcifications into benign and malignant directly on the Mammograms.