MEASUREMENT OF PUPIL SIZE DURING MAMMOGRAPHY

• Abstract:

  Many women feel the physical burden during mammography as pain. We examined the pain-related pupil dilation response during mammography. The pupil sizes of 24 women were measured during mammography excluding x-ray irradiation. Their mean pupil diameter was 2.9 mm in relaxation phase before mammography, while it was 3.2 mm in a few seconds after breast compression. The difference in pupil diameter between the relaxation and pressure phases was statistically significant.
• Keywords:

  mammography, pupil dilation response, pain assessment, objective indicator
• Download:

  IMEKO-WC-2015-TC13-270.pdf
• DOI:

  _unreg_wc-2015.270

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