Guidance

Breast screening: GE Senographe Pristina DBT system evaluation

Technical evaluation of the GE Senographe Pristina digital breast tomosynthesis system, used in the NHS breast screening programme.

• From: Public Health England
• Published: 18 January 2019

This publication was withdrawn on 1 July 2021

These reports are now available from the National Co-ordinating Centre for the Physics of Mammography (NCCPM).

Documents

[Withdrawn] Technical evaluation: GE Healthcare Senographe Pristina digital breast tomosynthesis system

Ref: PHE publications gateway number: 2018754

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Details

The report is one of a series of technical reports evaluating commercially available mammography systems on behalf of the NHS breast screening programme.

The report will help breast screening programme professionals to review and compare equipment specifications to best meet their needs.

It includes information about:

• dose
• contrast detail detection
• contrast-to-noise ratio (CNR)
• reconstruction artefacts, z resolution
• projection modulation transfer function (MTF)

Published 18 January 2019