[Combination of mammography with automated ultrasound (Sono-X) in routine diagnosis?].

A new technique for breast imaging is presented. This technique combines radiographic mammography directly with automated ultrasound. The combined examination, which is performed without decompression of the breast, yields the conventional mammography films as well as a complete set of B-mode scans and ultrasound projections.

[Automated mammary sonography and mammography: the differentiation of benign and malignant breast lesions].

Purpose: A prospective study on the differentiation of breast lesions was carried out using experimental combination schemes of mammography and automatic sonography.

Materials And Methods: X-ray mammograms and a B image from automatic sonography of 39 malignant and 41 benign lesions as well as 40 cases without lesions were separately examined by four experienced diagnosticians. The observers differentiated the findings mammographically and by measurement in the B images.

Detection of malignant and benign breast lesions with an automated US system: results in 120 cases.

Purpose: To evaluate clinically an automated ultrasound (US) system for detecting benign and malignant breast lesions.

Materials And Methods: A prototype automated US system was used to examine 119 patients: 38 patients with 39 proved malignant breast lesions (7-50 mm), 41 patients with 41 proved benign breast lesions (8-40 mm), and 40 patients without breast lesions. The device yields a three-dimensional set of B-mode scans and reconstructed US images comparable to mammograms.

Description and first clinical use of a new system for combined mammography and automated clinical amplitude/velocity reconstructive imaging breast sonography.

Rationale And Objectives: The authors tested a new automated system for clinical amplitude/velocity reconstructive imaging (CARI) breast sonography and compared the results with those of a manual laboratory model of this imaging modality, conventional sonography, and mammography.

Methods: Fifty-one patients with breast lesions were examined by mammography, conventional breast sonography, a laboratory version of a mammography-like breast compression device for breast sonography, and an automated system that allows sonography while in compression and reconstructs an image of the whole breast. The automated device allows reconstruction of one image per breast from an automatically acquired sonographic data set and simultaneous performance of mammography.