Radiation Protection Dosimetry Advance Access originally published online on February 29, 2008
Radiation Protection Dosimetry 2008 129(1-3):191-194; doi:10.1093/rpd/ncn022
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Teaching syllabus for radiological aspects of breast cancer screening with digital mammography
1 Department of Radiology, University of Leuven, UZ Gasthuisberg, 3000 Leuven, Belgium
2 Leuven University Center of Medical Physics in Radiology, UZ Gasthuisberg, 3000 Leuven, Belgium
* Corresponding author: chantal.vanongeval{at}uzleuven.be
The purpose of this study is to discuss the content of our new accreditation programme for radiologists' reading digital mammograms in a screening setting and to report our first experience with the new course. The course consisted of a theoretical part, given by the medical physicist, and a practical part given by the radiologist. The practical session is closely linked with the theoretical part and a reading session. The material is fully digital and can be presented on different platforms. In practice, the need for parallel soft-copy reading sessions on high-end workstations limits the number of participants. A high level of interactivity was noted between teacher and participant, with a thorough discussion of different digital mammography systems during a single teaching course. The main challenge for the teacher turned out to be the collection of representative material and the continuous updating of the material: new systems, processing techniques and artefacts need to be included regularly.
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