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• TITLE: Pupil Size Measurement and Sucrose Ingestion for Quantifying and Decreasing Burden of Women during Mammography

  AUTHORS: Yongbum Lee, Mieko Uchiyama, Tomoko Sumiyoshi

  KEYWORDS: Mammography, Pain Assessment, Pain Alleviation, Pupil Dilation, Sweet Stimuli

  JOURNAL NAME: Journal of Biomedical Science and Engineering, Vol.8 No.10, October 19, 2015

  ABSTRACT: Many women feel a physical burden, which usually appears as a pain, during mammography. We examined the pain-related pupil dilation response during mammography. Twenty-four healthy women participated in the examination. They were randomly assigned to water group or sucrose group. Water group and sucrose group ingested distilled water and a sucrose solution during mammography, respectively. Their pupil sizes were measured during mammography excluding X-ray irradiation. The subjective intensity of pain during mammography was also assessed using visual analogue scales (VAS). The mean pupil diameter was 2.99 mm in relaxation phase before mammography, while it was 3.15 mm in a few seconds after breast compression (pressure phase). The difference between the two was statistically significant (p p