Breast Cancer (Screening)

Prospects for New Technique Presented at Conference

Published in Women's Health Weekly, March 3rd, 1997

A safe and accurate tool for breast cancer screening may be on the horizon, report scientists and engineers who are developing an imaging system that uses very low-level electrical currents.

The prospect was announced at the 1997 annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), held February 13-18, 1997, in Seattle, Washington.

Called adaptive current tomography (ACT), the system can deliver real-time images of bodily functions without exposing patients to radiation or radioactivity.

Developed by a team of mathematicians, biomedical engineers, and computer scientists at Rensselaer Polytechnic...

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Source: Women's Health Weekly (1997-03-03)

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