Philips MicroDose mammography system provides exceptional mammography images at low radiation dose. With MicroDose, clinicians report using a significantly lower average X-ray dose as compared to other full-field digital mammography (FFDM) systems.
1,2 MicroDose delivers future-proof technology that will allow you to be competitive and deliver excellent patient care. Its exclusive photon counting detector technology opens up opportunities for advanced future breast applications.
Snow Everest Medical Systems in Myanmar and Philips Healthcare Services supports you in delivering quality breast imaging. We help keep your screening and diagnostic solutions performing at their peak, motivate and educate your staff, and help drive your operational efficiency.
Exclusive photon counting technology yields high dose efficiency The key factor in reducing breast cancer mortality rates is the early detection of small lesions. This requires highly effective equipment with superb image quality.
A number of factors, such as electronic noise, scattered radiation and information loss during analog-to-digital signal conversion can negatively affect image quality. To compensate, most FFDMs have to increase the radiation dose. In contrast, MicroDose removes these factors almost entirely, using photon counting to facilitate confident detection at low radiation dose.
Our patented detector counts the digital X-rays one by one, resulting in the following benefits:
- No scattered radiation or electronic noise: the image is acquired by a scanning method that uses a patented multi-slit collimator, eliminating 97% of scattered radiation. In addition, the signals from the individual photons are clearly separated from the background electronic noise. Together, these factors significantly reduce the noise level in the image, allowing for high dose efficiency.
- No signal conversion and no data loss: the direct capture of the individual X-rays occurs without the analog-to-digital conversion steps used by other FFDM systems, so no information is lost in conversion.