Sentences with phrase «breast imaging system»

His dynamic optical tomographic breast imaging system generates 3D images of both breasts simultaneously.

Current molecular breast imaging systems use a traditional collimator, which is essentially a rectangular plate of dense metal with a grid of holes, to «filter» the gamma rays for the camera.

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Dr. Lee's team developed an imaging guidance system designed to minimize the need for repeated operations while sparing greater amounts of healthy breast tissue.

«If we can confirm these results in the larger study that we are planning to begin soon, this imaging system may allow us to personalize breast cancer treatment and offer the treatment that is most likely to benefit individual patients,» says Hershman, who is also a professor of medicine and epidemiology at Columbia University Irving Medical Center.

A new optical imaging system developed at Columbia University uses red and near - infrared light to identify breast cancer patients who will respond to chemotherapy.

Adding this variable angle slant hole collimator to an existing breast molecular imaging system allows the system to get six times better contrast of cancer lesions in the breast, providing the same or better image quality while also potentially reducing the radiation dose to the patient by half.

They tested DBT and DM according to four outcomes — true positive (TP), true negative (TN), false positive (FP), and false negative (FN) rates — by comparing the Breast Imaging Reporting and Data System (BI-RADS) score (assigned at screening with data about subsequent cancer diagnosis).

They found that using the VASH collimator with an existing breast molecular imaging system, they could get six times better contrast of tumors in the breast, which could potentially reduce the radiation dose to the patient by half from the current levels, while maintaining the same or better image quality.

As described in a new paper, NIST's prototype breast phantom was tested on MRI systems from two manufacturers in three configurations and produced accurate, quantitative images that could be used to evaluate common imaging procedures.

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A new optical imaging system developed at Columbia University uses red and near - infrared light to identify breast cancer patients who will respond best to chemotherapy.

Radiologists use the Breast Imaging Reporting and Data System, or BI-RADS, to classify breast density into 4 categBreast Imaging Reporting and Data System, or BI-RADS, to classify breast density into 4 categbreast density into 4 categories.

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Dr. Hill's work has included serving as trial counsel for plaintiffs and defendants in patent infringement suits involving breast and ovarian cancer gene tests, radiology informatics, hospital information systems, orthopedic surgical devices, MRI diffusion tensor imaging, generic drugs in Hatch - Waxman patent litigation, and biologics in suits brought under the Biologics Price Competition and Innovation Act.