Breast-elasticity imaging package.(EMERGING TECHNOLOGY)

From: Medical Imaging | Date: January 1, 2007 | Copyright information

Siemens Medical Solutions, Malvern, Pa, introduced its Acuson Antares Premium Edition--featuring the unique capability to perform real-time breast-elasticity imaging alongside traditional ultrasound imaging--at RSNA 2006. Elasticity imaging has the potential to provide superlative characterization of breast cancer by looking at the stiffness of tissue, which is an indicator of malignancy and also can be used to more accurately measure the degree to which the cancer has spread.

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