Better and more detailed and the development time is down from 10 minutes from an X Ray to 7 seconds...BD
Newport Hospital is the only medical facility in Newport County and one of the few community hospitals regionally that features digital mammography. The hospital bought three digital mammography units from GE Healthcare for $1.5 million.
"Film-screen mammography is still excellent," Kutcher said. "There are just so many advantages to digital mammography."Duchesne said Newport Hospital also implemented a new software program in February - computer-aided detection (CAD) - that is able to scan images of breasts for abnormalities and then highlights the problem sections. The program is known to detect things that the humans cannot, Duchesne said.
To develop X-ray film, the process used to take five to 10 minutes, but now with digital mammography, it only takes seven seconds. As a result, what used to be a 30-minute appointment can now be cut down to about 20 minutes. If the image of the breast is not up to par, digital mammography makes it easier for the technician to take more photos in a short period of time.
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