Published online before print March 29, 2002, 10.1148/radiol.2232010704
(Radiology 2002;223:483.)
A more recent version of this article appeared on May 1, 2002
Interpretation of Digital Mammograms: Comparison of Speed and Accuracy of Soft-Copy versus Printed-Film Display1
Etta D. Pisano, MD,
Elodia B. Cole, MS,
Emily O. Kistner, BS,
Keith E. Muller, PhD,
Bradley M. Hemminger, MS,
Mary L. Brown, BS,
R. Eugene Johnston, PhD,
Cherie M. Kuzmiak, DO,
M. Patricia Braeuning, MD,
Rita I. Freimanis, MD,
Mary Scott Soo, MD,
J. A. Baker, MD and
Ruth Walsh, MD
1 From the Dept of Radiology (E.D.P., E.B.C., B.M.H., M.L.B., R.E.J., C.M.K.) and UNC-Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Ctr (E.D.P., E.B.C., M.L.B.), Univ of North Carolina School of Med, 101 Manning Dr, 515 Old Infirmary, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7510; Dept of Biostatistics, Univ of North Carolina School of Public Health, Chapel Hill (E.O.K., K.E.M.); Dept of Radiology, Christ Hosp, Cincinnati, Ohio (M.P.B.); Dept of Radiology, Wake Forest Univ School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC (R.I.F.); and Dept of Radiology, Duke Univ School of Med, Durham, NC (M.S.S., J.A.B., R.W.). From the 1999 RSNA scientific assembly. Received Mar 29, 2001; revision requested May 23; revision received Oct 4; accepted Nov 12. Supported in part by Department of Defense Grant 5-36845, "Evaluation of Digital Mammography Display." Address correspondence to E.D.P. (e-mail: etta_pisano@med.unc.edu).

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Figure 1. Soft-copy workstation for digital mammography.
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Figure 2. Dedicated mammographic light box used for interpretation of screen-film mammograms.
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