Variations in tube output, film processing, and radiologist's preferences affect the screen-film combination that is appropriate for any particular mammographic facility. A technique to test a variety of screen-film combinations for screening mammography is described. Films are selected for testing because of their densitometric characteristics. Dose and clinical reliability are established with phantoms before the screen-film combinations are used to image consecutive patients having bilateral examinations. The mammograms selected for evaluation are those with similar optical density ranges, and which also may be compared to available previous mammograms or which have unusual mammographic findings. All radiologists reading mammograms at a facility independently score the selected cases. Scores of "unacceptable," "acceptable," or "outstanding" are assigned to four basic imaging characteristics: sharpness, contrast, visibility of skin line, and noise. Interobserver variations by this method require normalization, unlike ROC analysis which is not applicable for this data because of the absence of proved pathologic diagnoses. The testing of 5 films and two screens using 42 patient examinations required 2 h of time from each radiologist. It took 7 h of the physicist's time to pretest the 5 films, select the 42 acceptable examinations for testing by the radiologists, and summarize the data.
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