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Women’s Diagnostic Center
Digital Mammography
- It provides clearer, more readable images that can be manipulated and magnified. It reduces the amount of repeat testing that women have to undergo.
- Our healthcare professionals can better see the entire breast area and tissue at the skin line.
- Images can be stored and transmitted electronically and are much more accessible.
- It allows for shorter exam times for both screening and diagnostic procedures.
- It results in lower doses of radiation in dense breast tissue.
- Healthcare professionals can review images almost instantaneously.
It is recommended that women who are 50 to 74 years old and are at average risk for breast cancer get a mammogram every two years. Women who are 40 to 49 years old should talk to their doctor or other health care provider about when to start and how often to get a mammogram.
GE Senographe Pristina
The GE Senograph Pristina is a 2D and 3D (Tomosynthesis) mammography machine. The 3D imaging increases technologist’s accuracy and provides more accurate imaging for the Radiologist, WITHOUT increased radiation exposure to the patient. When having a 3D image on this machine, it gives the radiologist the 3D imaging plus a 2D synthesized image compiled from the 3D images.
2D imaging is what has always been done in the past. Oaklawn has had the ability to do 3D imaging since 2015. The 3D imaging is recommended by radiologists for all breast types. It reduces the “overlap” of structures in the breast. This results in less patient callback, reduced anxiety and improved breast cancer detection.
VOLPARA Software
The Pristina is paired with Volpara Software that grades the technologist on their breast positioning and compression. It uses Artificial Intelligence (AI) Technology which allows us to look for patterns of each technologist of how to improve their positioning in making sure that the most breast tissue possible is being imaged.
It also uses AI to determine if there is too much, too little or just the right amount of compression for each breast image that is done. Too much or Too little compression can result in missing cancers. Oaklawn has technologists that rank in the top 10% world wide for their positioning and compression, with 2 technologists that rank in the top 1% world wide. Both positioning and compression are crucial to providing the radiologist with accurate images and detecting abnormalities in the breast tissue.
