Agreement Between an Automated Volume Breast Scanner and Handheld Ultrasound for Diagnostic Breast Examinations
- 1 June 2017
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine
- Vol. 36 (10), 2087-2092
- https://doi.org/10.1002/jum.14248
Abstract
Performing a single-view diagnostic ABVS examination has good agreement with a handheld diagnostic US workup. There is no difference if the ABVS is used by a sonographer or mammographic technologist.Keywords
Funding Information
- equipment grants from Siemens Medical Solutions, Philips Healthcare, SuperSonic Imagine, B&K Ultrasound, and Hitachi Ultrasound
- speakers bureaus of Philips Healthcare, Siemens Medical Solutions, and SuperSonic Imagine; and receives royalties from Thieme Publishers
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