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SUBMITTER: Hruska CB
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5989426 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Hruska Carrie B CB Geske Jennifer R JR Swanson Tiffinee N TN Mammel Alyssa N AN Lake David S DS Manduca Armando A Conners Amy Lynn AL Whaley Dana H DH Scott Christopher G CG Carter Rickey E RE Rhodes Deborah J DJ O'Connor Michael K MK Vachon Celine M CM
Breast cancer research : BCR 20180605 1
<h4>Background</h4>Background parenchymal uptake (BPU), which refers to the level of Tc-99m sestamibi uptake within normal fibroglandular tissue on molecular breast imaging (MBI), has been identified as a breast cancer risk factor, independent of mammographic density. Prior analyses have used subjective categories to describe BPU. We evaluate a new quantitative method for assessing BPU by testing its reproducibility, comparing quantitative results with previously established subjective BPU categ ...[more]