Equipment evaluation and guidance
Progress of equipment evaluations (Updated July 2012)
NHSBSP Equipment Report 1304
Technical evaluation of the Fuji Amulet f/s Digital Breast Imaging System
May 2013 | Download PDF (664Kb)
NHSBSP Equipment Report 1301
Technical Evaluation of the IMS Giotto 3DL Digital Breast Imaging System
March 2013 | Download PDF (1.1Mb)
NHSBSP Equipment Report 1201
Technical evaluation of Hologic Selenia Dimensions 2-D Digital Breast Imaging System with software version 1.4.2
July 2012 | Download PDF (918Kb)
NHSBSP Equipment Report 1201
Technical evaluation of Hologic Selenia Dimensions 2-D Digital Breast Imaging System with software version 1.4.2
July 2012 | Download PDF (918Kb)
NHSBSP Equipment Report 1102
Evaluation and clinical assessment of the Philips MammoDiagnost DR full field digital mammography system
August 2011 | Download PDF (1.13Mb)
NHSBSP 70
Guidance notes for the acquisition and testing of ultrasound scanners for use in the NHS Breast Screening Programme
April 2011| Summary | Download PDF (1.6Mb)
NHSBSP Equipment Report 1101
Technical evaluation of Hologic Selenia Dimensions 2-D digital Breast Imaging System
February 2011 | Download PDF (1.51Mb)
NHSBSP Equipment Report 1003
Evaluation and Clinical Assessment of the Hologic Selenia Dimensions Full Field Direct Digital Mammography Unit
October 2010 | Download PDF (2.93Mb)
NHSBSP Equipment Report 1002
Evaluation and Clinical Assessment of the Fuji Amulet Full Field Direct Digital Mammography System
March 2011 | Download PDF (1.36Mb)
NHSBSP Equipment Report 1001
Evaluation and Clinical Assessment of the Siemens Mammomat Inspiration Full Field Direct Digital Mammography Unit
May 2010 | Download PDF (3.35Mb)
NHSBSP Equipment Report 0910
Evaluation of CAD with Full Field Digital Mammography in the NHS Breast Screening Programme
December 2009 | Download PDF (343Kb)
NHSBSP Equipment Report 0909
Technical evaluation of Siemens Mammomat Inspiration Full Field Digital Mammography system
December 2009 | Download PDF (1.2Mb)
NHSBSP Equipment Report 0908
Evaluation and clinical assessment of the Fuji CR Profect on a breast screening trailer
November 2009 | Download PDF (1.8Mb)
NHSBSP Equipment Report 0907
Technical evaluation of Fuji Amulet Full Field Digital Mammography System
November 2009 | Download PDF (1.12Mb)
NHSBSP Equipment Report 0906
Evaluation and Clinical Assessment of the Konica Minolta Regius 190 with CP-1M Cassettes
November 2009 | Download PDF (556Kb)
NHSBSP Equipment Report 0905
Technical Evaluation of Agfa DX-M Mammography CR Reader with HM5.0 Needle-IP
November 2009 | Download PDF (1.31Mb)
NHSBSP Equipment Report 0904
Specification for mobile digital trailers for breast screening
October 2009 | Download PDF (310Kb)
NHSBSP Equipment Report 0903:
Technical evaluation of profile automatic exposure control software on GE Essential FFDM systems
May 2009 | Download PDF (1.0Mb)
NHSBSP Equipment Report 0902
Calculation of quantitative image quality parameters
April 2009 | Download PDF (4.0Mb)
NHSBSP Equipment Report 0901
Review of measurements on full field digital mammography systems
January 2009 | Download PDF (1.0Mb)
NHSBSP Equipment Report 0806
Technical evaluation of the Konica Minolta Regius 190 CR mammography system and three types of image plate
December 2008 | Download PDF (3.0Mb)
NHSBSP Equipment Report 0805
Technical evaluation of the Sectra MDM-L30 FFDM system
November 2008 | Download PDF (2.7Mb)
NHSBSP Equipment Report 0804
Technical evaluation of the IMS Giotto FFDM system with a tungsten tube
September 2008 | Download PDF (4.7Mb)
NHSBSP Equipment Report 0803
Technical evaluation of the GE Essential FFDM System
May 2008 | Download PDF (2.0Mb)
NHSBSP Equipment Report 0802
Evaluation and clinical assessment of the Agfa CR 85-X mammography system
May 2008 | Download PDF (4.0Mb)
NHSBSP Equipment Report 0801
Technical evaluation of the Hologic Selenia full field digital mammography system with a tungsten tube
April 2008 | Download PDF (1.1Mb)
NHSBSP Equipment Report 0711
Evaluaton and clinical assessment of the Siemens Novation full field digital mammography system
December 2007 | Download PDF (1.5Mb)
NHSBSP Equipment Report 0710
Technical evaluation of the Siemens Novation full field digital mammography system
December 2007 | Download PDF (807Kb)
NHSBSP Equipment Report 0709
Evaluation and clinical assessment of the Hologic Selenia full field digital mammography system
November 2007 | Download PDF (2.8Mb)
NHSBSP Equipment Report 0708
Ergonomic assessment of mammography units
October 2007 | Download PDF (24Mb)
NHSBSP Equipment Report 0707
Technical evaluation of the Agfa CR 85-X mammography system
May 2007 | Download PDF (511Kb)
NHSBSP Equipment Report 0706
Technical evaluation of the Kodak DirectView mammography computerised radiography system using EHR-M2 plates
May 2007 | Download PDF (521Kb)
NHSBSP Equipment Report 0705
Commissioning and routine testing of small field digital mammography systems
May 2007 | Download PDF (367Kb)
NHSBSP Equipment Report 0704
Guidance on beam quality selection in the NHS Breast Screening Programme
May 2007 | Download PDF (251Kb)
NHSBSP Equipment Report 0703
Protocol for user evaluation of imaging equipment for mammographic screening and assessment
May 2007 | Download PDF (329Kb)
NHSBSP Equipment Report 0702
Routine quality control tests for full field digital mammography systems
February 2007 | Download PDF (798Kb)
NHSBSP Equipment Report 0701
Technical evaluation of the Hologic Selenia full field digital mammography system
January 2007 | Download PDF (1.6Mb)
NHSBSP Equipment Report 0605
Evaluation of the Fuji Profect computerised radiography system
September 2006 | Download PDF (1.0Mb)
NHSBSP Equipment Report 0604
Commissioning and routine testing of full field digital mammography systems
April 2009 (Version 3) | Download PDF (1.88Mb)
NHSBSP Equipment Report 0603
Acceptability to women of full field digital mammography
May 2006 | Download PDF (207Kb)
NHSBSP Equipment Report 0602
Evaluation and clinical assessment of digital mammography screening using the GE Senographe 2000D system
May 2006 | Download PDF (1.11Mb)
NHSBSP Equipment Report 0504
Evaluation of Kodak DirectView mammography computerised radiography system
December 2005 | Download PDF (361Kb)
NHSBSP 72 (Replaces Equipment Report 0503 )
Guidance notes for the installation of electrical supply in mobile trailers for breast screening
July 2012 | Download PDF (112Kb)
NHSBSP Equipment Report 0502
Review of literature on digital mammography in screening
December 2005 | Download PDF (574Kb)
NHSBSP Equipment Report 0501
Review of computerised radiography systems in the NHSBSP
April 2005 | Download PDF (1.04Mb)
NHSBSP Equipment Report 0403
A cost comparison of full field digital mammography (FFDM) with film-screen mammography in breast cancer screening
February 2004 | Download PDF (580Kb)
NHSBSP Equipment Report 0402
New version of the Fuji AD mammography film-screen system
February 2004 | Download PDF (154Kb)
NHSBSP Equipment Report 0401
Evaluation of the Kodak Min-R EV mammography film-screen system
January 2004 | Download PDF (167Kb)
NHSBSP Equipment Report 0301
Transit fixing of Fuji loaders and unloaders on mammography trailers
October 2003 | Download PDF (4.5Mb)
NHSBSP Occasional Report 03/01
Guidance on the electrical and mechanical safety testing of mammographic x-ray equipment
March 2003 | Download PDF (60kb)
NHSBSP Occasional Report 02/02
Evaluation of the performance of Fuji computed radiography systems for mammography
February 2002
NHSBSP Occasional Report 02/01
An assessment of automatic beam quality selection by the LORAD M-1V X-ray set
January 2002
NHSBSP Occasional Report 01/08
Addendum to MDD/93/33
September 2001
NHSBSP Occasional Report 01/09
Commissioning and routine testing of small field digital mammography systems
September 2001
NHSBSP Occasional Report 00/02
Clinical experience with small field digital mammography systems
June 2000
NHSBSP Publication No 32
Guidance notes on mammographic x-ray equipment: selection; maintenance; suspension from use; replacement
February 1995 | Summary | ISBN 1 871997 91 7
MDA equipment guidance notes and evaluation reports
Published by the Medical Devices Agency
(Now the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency).
KCARE:
King's Centre for the Assessment of Radiological Equipment
Report No. 89 (Revision of IPEM Report 59)
The commissioning and routine testing of mammographic x-ray systems
Published by the Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine (IPEM)
2005
Mammography equipment: image quality and dose
For copies of the above, please contact the national office 0114 2711060.
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