Guidance

Breast screening: beam quality selection

This document explains the procedures for selecting optimum beam quality in breast screening.

From:
Public Health England
Published
1 May 2007

This publication was withdrawn on

This technology has now been replaced by digital mammography. Read the current Breast screening: professional guidance.

Documents

Guidance on beam quality selection in the NHS breasts screening programme

PDF, 691 KB, 18 pages

Details

This publication sets out guidelines for choosing beam quality in film or screen mammography systems for the NHS breast screening programme.

It includes:

  • general principles of mammography x-rays
  • strategies for optimising the test
Published 1 May 2007