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Advanced X-Ray Breast Imaging and its Role Beyond Cancer Diagnosis

Ioannis Sechopoulos, Ph.D., DABR, FAAPM

Associate Professor, Department of Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Anatomy
Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
and
Dutch Expert Center for Screening (LRCB), Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Thursday, May 14, 2020
14:00-15:00 Central European Time (Amsterdam, Rome, Vienna)

Abstract

X-ray based breast imaging, specifically in the form of digital mammography and digital breast tomosynthesis, is well-established as the most common imaging method for detection and diagnosis of breast cancer. However, new and upcoming advances based on dedicated breast CT hold promise for not only improvement in cancer diagnosis, but also for x-ray imaging to have a crucial role in the introduction of precision medicine for breast cancer care. This will involve taking x-ray imaging to a 4th dimension, with innovations in image acquisition, reconstruction, processing, filtering, and analysis. With these advances, x-ray breast imaging has the promise to revolutionize breast cancer treatment.

SPEAKER

Ioannis Sechopoulos, Ph.D., DABR, FAAPM
Associate Professor, Department of Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Anatomy
Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
and
Dutch Expert Center for Screening (LRCB), Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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MODERATOR

Prof. Magdalena Stoeva
Chair IOMP Medical Physics World Board
Medical University, Plovdiv, Bulgaria