Mammography Room Planning

This article based on a recent white paper describes how to design a mammography reading room to ensure optimum results when screening digital mammograms.

Mammography room planning.

Mammography rooms should provide sufficient area for interventional procedures such as needle biopsy that may require bed access and prone positioning. Mammography rooms primarily utilizes close proximity low energy x ray radiography for imaging soft breast glandular tissue for medical diagnosis. Here you ll have access to downloadable room layouts in pdf and where available in dwg and irl pdf format. Typical low energy levels of 25kvp to 35kvp.

Mammography rooms a medical equipment planner is a useful resource for knowing the right questions to ask clinicians about equipment in rooms. Find past versions of documents here. Philips preferred and interactive room layouts are designed to help architects engineers and contractors as well as facilities personnel understand the basic implications of installing a philips imaging system. Read a large number of exams each year.

Typically there are several goals. For architects designing mammography rooms the important first question to ask is. Will the room also be used for needle biopsy. Change rooms should be accessible directly from the mammography room and an.

Exam rooms are usually smaller from 8 0 x 8 0 to 12 0 x 12 0.