Pathology Lab

As a necessity, thickness of both breasts should be same so all of the tissues can be visualized.

It spreads out the tissue so that small abnormalities are less likely to be obscured by overlying breast tissue.

It allows the use of lower x-ray dose since a thinner amount of breast tissue is being imaged.

It holds the breast still in order to minimize blurring of the image which can be caused due to any movement or motion of breasts.

It reduces x-ray scatter to increase sharpness of the picture.