Pro-MAM Gold is an advanced phantom developed for quality assurance of digital and analog mammography systems. It is specifically designed to assess image quality at very low contrasts and small objects, and meets the requirements of the European protocol for quality assurance in mammography.

Key features and benefits

• Contains gold discs (99.99%) placed in a PMMA module so that objects with extremely small diameters and thicknesses can be tested.

• High precision: diameter accuracy 0.001 mm (1 µm) and thickness accuracy 0.1 nm for some models.

• Only PMMA as material, which eliminates the need to calculate equivalent attenuation for other materials such as aluminum.

• Suitable for both digital full-field systems and analog mammography units. diagnomatic.com

• Comes with software solution for automatic or semi-automatic analysis of images, including "Contrast-Details" curves.

Technical specifications

• Main module size: 240 × 180 × 20 mm (alternatively 300 × 240 mm).

• Gold discs: Standard diameters: 0.05mm, 0.10mm, 0.15mm, 0.20mm, 0.25mm, 0.30mm, 0.40mm, 0.50mm, 0.60mm, 0.70mm, 0.80mm, 0.90mm, 1.00mm, 1.25mm, 1.50mm and 2.00 mm.

• Gold wafer types with thicknesses: 30 nm, 40 nm, 50 nm, 60 nm, 70 nm, 90 nm, 120 nm, 150 nm, 200 nm, 250 nm, 350 nm, 500 nm, 700 nm, 1000 nm, 1700 nm and 2000 nm.

• Disc depth: the gold discs are placed approximately 10 mm below the surface of the PMMA module.

• Certification and standard: CE marked and complies with “4th edition European Guidelines for Quality Assurance in Breast Cancer Screening and Diagnosis (EPQC)” and “EUREF type test protocol version 1.2 – IEC 61223-3-2”.

Areas of application

• Routine quality assurance (QA) of mammography systems, to verify that the system can detect very small structures and low contrast.

• Evaluation and optimization of exposure technique and PMMA thickness for the best possible image quality.

• Documentation and reporting in accreditation and certification programs for mammography.