Radial scanning of the breast: An alternative to the standard ultrasound technique

✍ Scribed by Robert Rosensweig; Pamela M. Foy; Catherine Cole-Beuglet; Alfred B. Kurtz; Barry B. Goldberg

• Book ID: 102330434
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1982
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 344 KB
• Volume: 10
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0091-2751
• DOI: 10.1002/jcu.1870100414

✦ Synopsis

A standard ultrasound examination of the breast, as performed on an automated, multitransducer B-mode scanner: consists of both longitudinal and transverse scans.2 Radial scanning has been performed in addition to standard scans since January 1980. Our experience to date suggests that radial scanning is an alternative to standard scans that offers equivalent information and decreases the time needed for a complete ultrasound examination of both breasts by 50%. TECHNIQUE A standard ultrasound examination of the breast in longitudinal and transverse planes at 5-mm intervals (Fig 1) requires 20-40 B-scan images for each breast3 for a total of 40-80 images. In addition, compression examinations of the breast in longitudinal and transverse planes require an extra 20-40 images for each breast, for a total of