Automated Whole Breast Ultrasound Shows Promising Results

TechniScan of Salt Lake City, UT has developed the Warm Bath Ultrasound breast imaging system, a software-controlled ultrasound system that performs an automated whole breast examination. The patient lies prone on the system’s examination table with the breast suspended in a warm water bath maintained near skin temperature, while an ultrasound array is moved in a continuous scan so that a complete series of 2-D image slices of the breast are collected. The resulting images can then be viewed on a DICOM review station. First results of a usability study were presented at the breast center conference in Las Vegas on March 21. The technology was able to distinguish between fibroglandular and other complex structures within the breast and was able to provide 3-D visualization of lesion location. Scans took approximately 12 minutes per breast and required no breast compression.

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