**Meet the editor**

Professor Laszlo Tabar, M.D, is a radiologist who has devoted his career to the early diagnosis of breast cancer. He was a leader in the first successful mammography screening trial and has gained a reputation as a clinician, researcher and teacher of the art and science of the early detection of breast cancer. He has co-authored more that 150 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters, as well as

five textbooks on breast cancer diagnosis and screening. He has directed more than 400 continuing medical education courses around the world teaching technologists, radiologists and other members of the multidisciplinary diagnostic team the principles and practice of the early detection of breast cancer.

Contents

**Preface IX** 

Chapter 2 **The Application of Breast MRI** 

Ting Kai Leung

Chapter 4 **Digital Mammography 81**  Cherie M. Kuzmiak

Chapter 5 **Image Quality Requirements** 

Chapter 6 **Contrast Enhancement** 

George Zentai

Chapter 7 **Standards for Electrical** 

**Part 1 New, Innovative Breast Imaging Modalities 1** 

**on Asian Women (Dense Breast Pattern) 17** 

**Value and New Perspectives with 99mTc(V)-DMSA 61**  Vassilios Papantoniou, Pipitsa Valsamaki and Spyridon Tsiouris

**for Digital Mammography in Breast Cancer Screening 115**  Margarita Chevalier, Fernando Leyton, Maria Nogueira Tavares, Marcio Oliveira, Teogenes A. da Silva and João Emilio Peixoto

**in Mammography Imaging Including K Edge Filtering 133** 

**in Breast Cancer Diagnosis and Management 179**  Anne Rosenberg, Douglas Arthur Kieper, Mark B. Williams,

Chapter 1 **Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Breast 3**  Marc Lobbes and Carla Boetes

Chapter 3 **Scintimammography - Molecular Imaging:** 

**Impedance Mammography 159**  Marina Korotkova and Alexander Karpov

Chapter 8 **The Role of Molecular Imaging Technologies** 

Nathalie Johnson and Leora Lanzkowsky
