Mammography

PIXMAM

PIXMAM is a digital mammography image quality phantom comprising a stack of finely toleranced PMMA plates.

PIXMAM comprises PMMA plates of dimensions; *

  • (1pc) 300 x 240 x 20mm
    (including encapsulated 99.99% 0.20x10x10mm Al foil)
  • (2pc) 300 x 240 x 20mm
  • (1pc) 300 x 240 x 10mm
  • (1pc) 300 x 240 x 5mm

PIXMAM allows the following tests to be conducted;

  • AEC checks
  • detector homogeneity
  • SNR
  • CNR

 

Conforms to standards:

  • NHSBSP pub 604-3 :2009
  • NHSBSP pub 702-1 :2007
  • EUREF 4th edition of the European Guidelines for Quality Assurance in Breast Cancer Screening and Diagnosis
Automatic analysis software is available for this phantom:
AutoPIA
PIXMAM specification sheet
PIXMAM 300 x 240
PIXMAM 300 x 240