Siemens Healthcare has received clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its Mammomat Inspiration Prime Edition digital mammography system.
Mammomat Inspiration Prime Edition is designed to reduce patient exposure to radiation dose by as much as 30% with no loss of image quality, according to Siemens.
Siemens' new reconstruction algorithm for the system -- known as Prime (progressive reconstruction, intelligently minimizing exposure) -- is designed to correct scattered radiation by identifying scatter-causing structures and recalculating image data.
