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To help improve mammography, the National Institute of Standards and Technology is opening a new standards and calibration facility, the first in the United States specifically for mammography. The exposure, directly related to the radiation dose to the breast, should be kept to a minimum while ensuring adequate diagnostic quality in the recorded image. NIST physicists developed the new national standard and calibration facility to help clinics meet requirements of the Mammography Quality Standards Act of 1992. This law requires the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to set up a licensing and inspection program for U.S. mammography clinics. Time and its inverse, frequency, are the most precisely measurable of all quantities.