Genius™ 3D Mammography™

Our 3D exams deliver a series of detailed breast images, allowing your doctor to better evaluate your breasts, layer by layer, and more than 100 clinical studies support the benefits of this technology. Studies show that 3D mammography has greater accuracy than 2D mammography for women across a variety of ages and breast densities. Our practice is located at EMU Health in Glendale, New York (11385), which is near Middle Village, Ridgewood, Kew Gardens, Forest Hills, Woodhaven, Richmond Hill, Jamaica, Rego Park, Ozone Park, Elmhurst, and Maspeth.

Detects Significantly More Breast Cancer, Compared to 2D Mammography Alone

For some women, this could mean an earlier diagnosis.

Reduces Callbacks by up to 40%, Compared to 2D Mammography Alone

For many women, this means being spared the emotional, practical, and economic toll of additional testing, including biopsies, when there could be nothing wrong.

Provides Greater Accuracy for Women Across a Variety of Ages and Breast Densities

Any woman who is due to have a traditional mammogram can elect to have a 3D exam. They are covered and paid for by Medicare, as well as a growing number of private insurers.

How Does 3D Mammography Work?

A Genius exam is an advanced technology in the fight against breast cancer that allows doctors to examine your breast tissue one layer at a time. The imaging system uses high-powered computing to convert digital breast images into a stack of very thin layers or “slices” for your radiologist to review. A good analogy for a Genius exam is thinking of the pages in a book. If you look down at the cover you cannot see all of the pages – but when you open it up, you can go through the entire book, page-by-page, to see everything between the covers. The Genius exam was designed with the same concept in mind.

Conventional 2D mammograms provide doctors with a 2D image to evaluate the breast. This can be limiting due to overlapping layers of tissue, which can sometimes produce unclear results, false alarms, or worse – cancer being missed.

Our 3D exams deliver a series of detailed breast images, allowing your doctor to better evaluate your breasts layer by layer, and more than 100 clinical studies support the benefits of this technology. Studies show that 3D mammography has greater accuracy than 2D mammography for women across a variety of ages and breast densities.

There Is No Additional Compression Required

During the Genius exam, the X-ray arm sweeps in a slight arc over the breast, taking multiple breast images in just seconds. Your doctor is then able to view your breast tissue in 1-millimeter layers. Instead of viewing all the complexities of your breast tissue in one flat image, the doctor can examine the tissue one page or one "slice" at a time.

There is no additional compression required with the Genius exam, and it only takes a few seconds longer for each view. The technologist will view the images at a computer workstation to ensure adequate images have been captured for review by a radiologist, who studies them and reports results to either your physician or directly to you.

Did You Know?

Nearly 300,000 women are expected to be diagnosed with an invasive form of breast cancer in 2022 alone. This is why innovative screening technology that allows for better, earlier breast cancer detection is critical.

Schedule your screening today.