How to Recognize and Correct Artifacts on Contrast-Enhanced Mammography

Abstract Contrast-enhanced mammography (CEM) has emerged as an important new technology in breast imaging. It can demonstrate a number of imaging artifacts that have the potential to limit interpretation by either obscuring or potentially mimicking disease. Commonly encountered on CEM include patient motion (ripple and misregistration), pectoral highlighting artifact, implant halo corrugation cloudy fat contrast (retention contamination), skin (skin line enhancement overexposure), lesions. Skin lesions may variety appearances both benign malignant etiologies. is technologist, radiologist, physicist be aware affect understand their causes solutions.