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Look closer. Breast imaging with ultrasound and mammography.

Look closer. Breast imaging with ultrasound and mammography.Learn about our solutions for breast imaging.

Both ultrasound and mammography provide advantages for breast imaging. Combine them and you can reveal even more. See what you can achieve with a single expert partner: Our solutions offer high-quality imaging. They smoothly integrate in your clinical workflows. And they let you access our global service network. So take a closer look!

See clearly. Improve results and patient outcomes. Obtain comprehensive clinical information in 2D and 3D. And make more confident decisions, even with dense breast tissue.

Simplify operations. Make the most of your team’s resources. Benefit from a consistent user interface, an ergonomic design, and integrated reading solutions throughout breast imaging. For greater efficiency every day.

Synergize business. Broaden your revenue base and take advantage of a powerful partnership. Offer reliable, consistent, and comprehensive breast imaging services. And substantially increase your competitive edge.

Look closer with a single expert partner in breast imaging. Look closer with Siemens.

See clearly.

Early breast cancer detection
Early detection of breast cancer improves the chance for a successful patient outcome. Breast ultrasound and mammography are the two most commonly used imaging modalities for early breast cancer detection. Each has its unique advantages ‒ and combining them can reveal even more clinical details.

Dense breast tissue is a challenge in breast imaging.

Dense breast tissue – a challenge in breast imaging

About 50 percent¹ of all women have dense breast tissue. This poses a challenge in breast imaging because overlying tissue can prevent lesions from being seen. The combination of mammography and ultrasound can overcome this problem. It provides comprehensive clinical information for more confident decisions – even with dense breast tissue.

Excellent contrast and detail resolution in ultrasound breast imaging ‒ with the 18L6 high-frequency transducer.

2D ultrasound

Ultrasound allows the efficient and consistent identification of lesions or other areas of concern in fatty and dense breast tissue. Ultrasound elastography lets you confidently differentiate between healthy dense tissue, tumors, and other conditions. The high-frequency, high-density transducer technology provides exquisite 2D images, which is especially important for biopsy guidance.

3D Total Breast Ultrasound

3D Total Breast Ultrasound comprises many advanced technologies. The ACUSON S2000™ Automated Breast Volume Scanner (ABVS) system is a multi-use ultrasound solution that automatically and comfortably acquires full-field volumes of the breast anatomy. Automated image acquisition produces images that are standardized and reproducible, which improves consistency and the quality of care and the anatomical coronal plane offers a unique view of breast architecture.

PRIME Technology enables gridless low-dose breast imaging without compromising image quality. — Without grid 0.55 mGy

Always the right dose

Especially for healthy women, the right dose and image quality are critical. Mammomat Inspiration PRIME Edition⁵ combines both: PRIME Technology⁶ (Progressive Reconstruction Intelligently Minimizing Exposure) is
the world’s first software-based anti-scatter solution for mammography. The gridless acquisition allows for up to 30 percent⁷ lower dose without compromising image quality.

Obtaining more specific information

Ultrasound elastography imaging supplies another dimension of information in breast imaging: mechanical stiffness.

Elastography ‒ provides tissue stiffness information with industry-leading technologies eSieTouch™ elasticity imaging (compression elastography) and Virtual Touch™ applications (Acoustic Radiation Force Imaging) to support confident clinical decision-making

3D anatomical coronal view with breast ultrasound.

3D anatomical coronal view ‒ allows a slice-by-slice evaluation of the breast tissue, from the skin line to the chest wall, a perspective unavailable with conventional 2D ultrasound

3D Volume Coronal MultiSlice imaging with breast ultrasound.

3D Volume Coronal MultiSlice imaging ‒ provides the context for surgical planning

Perform biopsies faster without compromising diagnostic confidence, with Mammomat Inspiration or Mammomat Inspiration PRIME Edition.

Guided biopsies – with high-frequency ultrasound or stereotactic localization

Everything from a single source

Siemens is your one-stop shop for breast imaging modalities. In the field of breast ultrasound and mammography, Siemens provides the widest and most complete product range on the market. In addition, the comprehensive offering in magnetic resonance, molecular imaging, and laboratory diagnostics completes the breast care portfolio.

Simplify operations.

Make the most of your team’s resources

Just as excellent image quality is crucial in breast care, so is an efficient workflow. That’s why Siemens ultrasound and mammography systems and reading workstations have the syngo® user interface. So if you know how to use one, you can operate them all. This translates into time savings, less training effort, and greater efficiency every day. In addition, Siemens systems use common industry standards to exchange information and images. This enables a smooth integration into new or existing infrastructures and networks. And supports seamless workflows for comprehensive breast care.

With Mammomat Inspiration, time-consuming tasks in breast care imaging are quick and simple ‒ leaving you more time to focus on your patients.

Enjoy an ergonomic design

Our systems share a focus on ergonomic design ‒ allowing you to work faster, safer, and more easily. Ergonomic features include:

Single Touch Positioning in mammography
Transducer design and one-click locking mechanism on the ACUSON S2000 ABVS ultrasound system

Simplifying breast imaging: one user interface, one reading workstation, one expert partner.

Integrated reading solutions for breast care

Having comprehensive information quickly at your fingertips is essential for reliable clinical decisions and successful patient outcomes. Siemens reading solutions for breast imaging ‒ syngo.Breast Care⁸ and syngo.Ultrasound Breast Analysis ‒ can be set up on the same workstation. This means that you save time, money, and space because you only need one reading workstation.

Synergize business.

A single expert partner for women’s health
With a single expert partner for all your equipment, service, and financing needs, you are well positioned to broaden your revenue base and increase your competitive edge. When you have just one contact, it reduces the time and energy you need to spend on communication and coordination. In fact, it allows you to achieve even more with your equipment ‒ and to offer patients reliable, consistent, and comprehensive breast imaging services.

Synergize your business in breast imaging ‒ with a single expert partner for women’s health.

Take advantage of a powerful partnership to offer reliable, consistent, and comprehensive breast imaging services.

Improving breast imaging services

Modalities that share a consistent user interface and can be easily interconnected improve the consistency and efficiency of breast imaging services in women’s health. Automated processes and standardization provide reproducible exams that are a sound basis for accurate follow-ups. In turn, this can lead to higher patient satisfaction, patient retention, and patient referral.⁹

Whether for your equipment, service or financing needs: Siemens is your single expert partner in breast imaging.

Global service network

As an international provider backed by regional support around the globe, Siemens is on site wherever you are. Our extensive, tight-knit service network enables exceptionally fast supply and support, 24/7. So you can concentrate on what really matters – your patients.

Get proof.

Get proof for breast ultrasound and mammography

Find whitepapers and case studies on the clinical use of breast ultrasound and mammography.

Whitepapers on low dose

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Publication of “Full-field digital mammography with gridless acquisition and software-based scatter correction: Investigation of dose savings and image quality”¹

Andreas Fieselmann, Daniel Fische, Ghani Hilal, Frank Dennerlein, Thomas Mertelmeier, and Detlev Uhlenbrock investigated dose saving and image quality of gridless acquisition in combination with software-based scatter correction. The results show that similar image quality (contrast-to-noise ratio and contrast-detail visibility) can be obtained with this alternative acquisition and post-processing scheme at reduced dose.

Download the whitepaper (pdf) 1.05 MB

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Mean glandular dose survey of 2D mammograms acquired with the Siemens Mammomat Inspiration system
Hilde Bosmans, Koen Michielsen, Kim Lemmens, and Jurgen Jacobs show that mean glandular doses with Mammomat Inspiration are among the lowest in DR mammography and are significantly lower than film-screen data.

Download the whitepaper (pdf) 0.81 MB

White papers on breast ultrasound

Automated Breast Volume Scanning: Visualization of Mammographically Occult Breast Cancer – Two Cases
Bruce A. Porter, MD, and Heike Seck illustrate the role that the ACUSON S2000 Automated Breast Volume Scanner (ABVS) could play as an adjunct to mammography for early diagnosis, detection, and evaluation of breast cancer.

Download the whitepaper (pdf) 0.32 MB

Automated Breast Volume Scanning: 3D Ultrasound of the Breast
Roel Mus, MD, and Matthieu Rutten, MD, PhD show that reducing subjectivity and operator-dependent bias from ultrasound, Automated Breast Volume Scanning (ABVS), and 3D ultrasound opens the door to new applications in mammary diagnostics and beyond.

Download the whitepaper (pdf) 0.35 MB

The Role of 3D Total Breast Ultrasound in Breast Imaging
Coventry Louisy, MD, shows that Automated Breast Volume Scanning (ABVS) has the potential to assist physicians in the detection of occult abnormalities in dense breast tissue.

Download the case study (pdf) 1.34 MB

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For further information, please see: http://mammographysaveslives.org/~/media/MammographySavesLives/Files/PDFs/Breast%20Density%20broch_lowres.pdf

True 3D Breast Tomosynthesis is not commercially available in all countries. Due to regulatory reasons its future availability cannot be guaranteed. Please contact your local Siemens organization for further information.

1 view DBT MLO vs. 2 views DM CC, MLO

Performance of one-view breast tomosynthesis versus two-view mammography in breast cancer screening: first results from the Malmö breast tomosynthesis screening trial.Sophia Zackrisson, Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden.

Mammomat Inspiration PRIME Edition is not commercially available in all countries. Due to regulatory reasons its future availability cannot be guaranteed. Please contact your local Siemens organization for further information.

PRIME Technology is not yet commercially available in all countries. Due to regulatory reasons its future availability cannot be guaranteed. Please contact your local Siemens organization for further information

Compared to grid-based acquisition with Mammomat Inspiration, depending on breast thickness.

syngo.Breast Care is not yet commercially available in all countries. Due to regulatory reasons its future availability cannot be guaranteed. Please contact your local Siemens organization for further information.

Since there is no “typical” hospital or clinical setting, and many variables exist (e.g., hospital size, case mix, level of IT adoption) there can be no guarantee that customers will achieve the same results.