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Breast Cancer
Medical imaging systems developer receives Frost & Sullivan technology award
December 28th, 2004
Hologic, Inc., (HOLX) has received the Frost & Sullivan 2004 Technology Leadership of the Year Award in the field of women's health. The award recognizes Hologic for its work in the detection of breast cancer through tomosynthesis, a new investigational imaging technology. Tomosynthesis is a 3-D imaging technology that involves the acquisition of multiple images of a stationary compressed breast from different angles during a short scan. Tomosynthesis is similar to computed tomography (CT), but unlike CT scans which commonly use 360 degree revolutions with less than hundred slices, tomosynthesis uses a smaller, selected number of...
Source: Cancer Weekly (2004-12-28)
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