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I'm not impressed!
TL;DR - If you are a patient at public hospital in Brisbane, check your mammogram & ultrasound appointments. They may no longer be there. I had my second year mammogram and ultrasound today. It s...
Hi @mira. I'm not sure how "3D" the 3D is. The report has some very technical jargon I don't really understand. But the machine had 3D written on the side and while I was being squished, part of the machine moved in an arc over the top of the breast. So in the images, you can scroll through and see about 30 different slides as the machine took the pictures.
The report says:
"Bilateral MLO and CC tomosynthesis imaging with 2D C-view reconstructed images. The 3D volumetric breast density reading is xx% in the right breast in keeping with and BIRADS B."
Then later in the report it states:
"Volpara Breast Density Ranges
<xx% fatty, BIRADS A
xx% - xx% scattered fibroglandular, BIRADS B
xx% - xx% heterogeneously dense, BIRADS C
>xx% extremely dense, BIRADS D
So whether it's a true 3D imaging process, I'm not sure. It may be just measuring volume and size and not taking the detailed x-rays.
I didn't have to pay for any of it. It was all bulk billed.
The report says:
"Bilateral MLO and CC tomosynthesis imaging with 2D C-view reconstructed images. The 3D volumetric breast density reading is xx% in the right breast in keeping with and BIRADS B."
Then later in the report it states:
"Volpara Breast Density Ranges
<xx% fatty, BIRADS A
xx% - xx% scattered fibroglandular, BIRADS B
xx% - xx% heterogeneously dense, BIRADS C
>xx% extremely dense, BIRADS D
So whether it's a true 3D imaging process, I'm not sure. It may be just measuring volume and size and not taking the detailed x-rays.
I didn't have to pay for any of it. It was all bulk billed.