Breast compression: a preliminary study

D. J. Watmough; K. M. Quan; R. M. Aspden

doi:10.1016/0141-5425(93)90040-6

Breast compression: a preliminary study

D. J. Watmough^*
, K. M. Quan
, R. M. Aspden

^*Corresponding author for this work

Applied Medicine

University of Aberdeen

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Abstract

X-Ray mammography is the technique employed to image breast tumours; it is the gold standard for both diagnosis and screening¹. To increase the sensitivity of the test and to reduce the dose of X-radiation, breast compression is used. The effect of squeezing a simple model of a breast in which there is an idealized spherical tumour volume is investigated; the cases where the lesion has both a smaller, and a larger compressibility than the surrounding tissues are considered. Surface strain is computed as a function of the deformation of the lesion from its spherical shape. Evidence from earlier studies is adduced to show that when the lesion is malignant care should be exercised to avoid the possibility of disseminating cancer cells by the application of compressive forces.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	121-126
Number of pages	6
Journal	Journal of Biomedical Engineering
Volume	15
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/0141-5425(93)90040-6
Publication status	Published - Mar 1993

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Funding Information:
We wish to thank the Research Committee of the University of Aberdeen for the award of a grant to K.M. Quan which facilitated this study.

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We wish to thank the Research Committee of the University of Aberdeen for the award of a grant to K.M. Quan which facilitated this study.

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Keywords

Breast compression
malignant cells
mammography
tumour

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