Question

What is the thickness of the mammographic film ?

Answer 1

We measured breast skin thickness on the film-screen mammograms of 250 asymptomatic women and found a normal range of 0.7-2.3 mm in the superior quadrant and 0.7-2.7 mm in the inferior quadrant as measured on the mediolateral view and 0.6-2.4 mm in the medial quadrant and 0.5-2.1 mm in the lateral quadrant as measured on the craniocaudad view.