COCIR Members are committed to promoting the Eurosafe Imaging campaign, raising awareness and promoting training, helping accelerate the use of technologies in Europe that can help meet the campaign’s objectives. The purpose of mammography is to safely detect breast cancer in its early stages, which requires careful attention to image quality in addition to minimizing patient radiation exposure.Innovative technologies in breast imaging are crucial elements in improving clinical outcome. In mammography it is most important to consistently produce high quality images at the lowest radiation...

Since the introduction of mammography, many incremental technological innovations have made it possible to obtain mammograms with higher image quality using significantly lower radiation dose as compared to mammograms conducted in in the 1970’s and early 1980’s (figure 2). Some significant innovations and milestones: 1969 Dedicated mammographic unit with molybdenum target tube and compression cone replacing conventional tungsten target x-ray tubes with direct exposure industrial type films (figure 3) 1972 Screen-film system introduced for mammography reduce the dose 10 to 20 times 1976 Rare earth...

As part of an ongoing dedication to continuously improving patient safety and safety of health professionals, the industry is continuously working with clinicians to develop innovative technologies that optimize levels of radiation and improve image quality. These developments often offer clinicians faster, safer and more intelligent diagnostic imaging systems which improve visual and functional information about their patients while providing support decision-making, reduced complexity and increased productivity. Since these advances are often incremental, industry offers upgrades that help extend the life of equipment over a...

COCIR: the European Trade Association representing the medical imaging, health ICT and electromedical industries. Founded in 1959, COCIR is headquartered in Brussels (Belgium) with a China Desk based in Beijing since 2007. COCIR brings together the healthcare, IT and telecommunications industries. The focus is to open markets for members in Europe and beyond. COCIR provides a wide range of services on regulatory, technical, market intelligence, environmental, standardisation, international and legal affairs. COCIR is also a founding member of DITTA, the Global Diagnostic Imaging, Healthcare IT...

[1]:http://www.fda.gov/Radiation-EmittingProducts/MammographyQualityStandardsActandProgram/DocumentArchives/ucm123313.htm [2]:http://www.fda.gov/downloads/AdvisoryCommittees/CommitteesMeetingMaterials/MedicalDevices/MedicalDevicesAdvisoryCommittee/RadiologicalDevicesPanel/UCM325901.pdf