UltraSound CT™ Imaging System: Paid by You and Me

TechniScan Medical Systems, a private Salt Lake City company, is reporting receiving $2.8 million from National Institutes of Health to further develop the company’s technology of noninvasive ultrasound-based breast cancer diagnostics. The Medgadget team is perplexed why such promising technology can’t find its own investors and needs to be supported by hard working American taxpayers, who have nothing to do with the UltraSound CT™ Imaging System.
Despite this disgusting fact of parasitism, here are some fact sabout the technology, as reported by the company:

The UltraSound CT™ Imaging System is an automated, fully digital, breast imaging device that uses transmission ultrasound to produce two unique images of the breast; one based on the speed of sound and one based on the attenuation of sound. The system’s key features include the ability to scan the whole breast and produce high resolution 3D images, which provide for easier, more accurate localization and characterization of areas identified as requiring further workup after mammography or conventional ultrasound.
The quality of the images generated by the system is completely independent of operator skill and experience (unlike conventional breast ultrasound), and, unlike mammography, UltraSound CT uses no ionizing radiation and does not require breast compression. These benefits combine to provide additional information which can result in greater diagnostic confidence for radiologists and a safe and comfortable breast exam for women…
The UltraSound CT™ System produces two sets of images for each breast — speed of sound and attenuation of sound. Each image set is made up of a series of coronal slices of the breast from the nipple to near the chest wall at 2mm increments.
The speed of sound images and the attenuation of sound images are created from a single data set of transmission ultrasound signals processed with proprietary inverse scattering algorithms. Therefore, the two sets of images are perfectly correlated to each other.
The breast is scanned without compression so the location of any lesion or abnormality on the images can be directly correlated to its location in the physical breast.

Medgadget, a private and proudly independent bottom feeding website, has contacted the company to provide images of the system. The company has choosen to ignore our readers, so here’s a link to the taxpayer-sponsored video of the system…
Company’s site…