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Published online 11 March 2003 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news030310-1
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Better breast cancer screens?
3D X-ray mammograms could reduce false positives.
A new three-dimensional breast imaging technique could increase the detection of early-stage cancers and reduce the number of unnecessary biopsies.
Called full-field digital mammography tomosynthesis, the technique is the first to use X-rays to produce 3-D breast scans, Jeffrey Eberhard of GE Global Research told last week's American Physical Society meeting in Austin, Texas.
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