[X-ray examination of the breast (author's transl)]

Recent technical advances in X-ray examination of the breast are characterized by the introduction of dose-reducing image-recording systems (film-screen systems) and grid-mammography. Improved "high-resolution" film-screen systems in conjunction with grid technique have rendered it possible to obtain high-quality mammograms with significant dose reduction. Other modifications of mammographic imaging technique, such as new selective filter techniques, magnification mammography and electron radiography (XERG-mammography), are of less importance for practical mammography.