All Outputs (5)

Mathematical modelling of radiation-induced cancer risk from breast screening by mammography (2017)
Journal Article

Objectives: Establish a method to determine and convey lifetime radiation risk from FFDM screening.
Methods: Radiation risk from screening mammography was quantified using effective risk (number of radiation-induced cancer cases/million). For effec... Read More about Mathematical modelling of radiation-induced cancer risk from breast screening by mammography.

The impact of simulated motion blur on lesion detection performance in full field digital mammography (2017)
Journal Article

Objective: Motion blur is a known phenomenon in full-field digital mammography, but the impact on lesion detection is unknown. This is the first study to investigate detection performance with varying magnitudes of simulated motion blur.
Method: S... Read More about The impact of simulated motion blur on lesion detection performance in full field digital mammography.

An exploration of mammographers’ attitudes towards the use of social media for providing breast screening information to clients (2017)
Journal Article

Background: Increasingly patients and clients of health services are using social media to locate information about medical procedures and outcomes. There is increasing pressure for health professionals to engage in on-line spaces to provide clear a... Read More about An exploration of mammographers’ attitudes towards the use of social media for providing breast screening information to clients.

Mixed messages : an evaluation of NHS trust social media policies in the north west of England (2017)
Journal Article

Introduction: Despite National Health Service (NHS) information strategy promoting the use of Social Media (SoMe) to encourage greater engagement between service users and providers, a team investigating online SoMe interaction between breast screeni... Read More about Mixed messages : an evaluation of NHS trust social media policies in the north west of England.

Optimax 2016 : peer observation of facilitation (2017)
Report

In August 2016, a 3-week research Summer School
was delivered at University of Salford. The Summer
School, known as ‘OPTIMAX’ was in its fourth year
of delivery. Previous iterations were held in the
Netherlands (2015), Portugal (2014) and Salford... Read More about Optimax 2016 : peer observation of facilitation.