Digital Breast Tomosynthesis: A Practical Approach

This book provides a comprehensive description of the screening and clinical applications of digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) and offers straightforward, clear guidance on use of the technique. Informative clinical cases are presented to illustrate how to take advantage of DBT in clinical practice. The importance of DBT as a diagnostic tool for both screening and diagnosis is increasing rapidly. DBT improves upon mammography by depicting breast tissue on a video clip made of cross‐sectional images reconstructed in correspondence with their mammographic planes of acquisition. DBT results in markedly reduced summation of overlapping breast tissue and offers the potential to improve mammographic breast cancer surveillance and diagnosis. This book will be an excellent practical teaching guide for beginners and a useful reference for more experienced radiologists.

Alberto Stefano Tagliafico, MD, is a 35-year-old Assistant Professor of Human Anatomy at Università degli Studi di Genova (Faculty of Medicine and Surgery) and Staff Radiologist at IRCCS AOU San Martino – IST, Genova. Dr. Tagliafico is an Associate Editor of the British Journal of Radiology, Medicine, and the World Journal of Radiology. He has several commitments in the European Society Radiology (ESR) and Italian Society of Radiology (SIRM). He has expertise in radiological sciences and cancer diagnosis. He has more than 80 peer-reviewed publications with and H index of 20.  

Nehmat Houssami, MBBS, FAFPHM, MPH, PhD, is Professor of Public Health & NBCF Breast Cancer Research Leadership Fellow at the Sydney School of Public Health, The University of Sydney, Australia. Dr. Houssami is a Breast Physician and Public Health Physician with expertise in breast cancer diagnosis and screening, and the impact of testing on clinical outcomes. She leads the breast cancer research portfolio in the Screening & Test Evaluation Program (STEP) at the School of Public Health. Her research interests include new screening technologies, evidence-based practice in breast diagnostics, preoperative testing in women with newly diagnosed breast cancer, image-guided intervention, population breast screening, screening of women with a personal history of breast cancer, and evidence synthesis. She currently has numerous collaborative international research projects particularly in Europe. She has authored around 180 peer-reviewed articles.

Massimo Calabrese, MD, in 2001 was appointed associated professor of gynecologyc, radiologic and radioterapic schools of specialization in Genoa University of Medicine (Italy).In February 2010 he was appointed Director of Diagnostic Imaging and Breast Imaging at IRCCS AOU San Martino – IST, Genoa. Dr. Calabrese is a dedicated Breast Radiologist with twenty years of experience in Breast Diagnosis. His research interests include tomosyntesis, MRI and image-guided intervention of the breast. He is the author or co- author of numerous articles in peer-reviewed journals.