Digital Mammography Data Compression, QC Concerns Weighed By Panel
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
Differences between film and full-field digital mammography complicate quality control testing of the digital systems and slow facility accreditation, according to FDA's National Mammography Quality Assurance Advisory Committee
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