May 25, 2007

The Providence digital mammography van travels long distances to call on underserved parts of Alaska. Equipped with the new Selenia and R2 Computer Aided Detection system, the new mobile coach is a 34-foot self-contained mammography suite, which can be driven to a site and parked. The women simply walk in to get their exams.

May 11, 2007

Because most of the small hospitals and community clinics in the rural areas surrounding Baton Rouge do not offer mammography services, the Woman's Hospital mobile van program reaches populations in desperate need of screening. Typically, the van is running five days a week and two Saturdays each month.

May 11, 2007

Improved accuracy, convenience, and image quality have proven to be the best fit for West Coast Breast Centers (WCBC), a busy practice, which serves 150 patients each day at two sites and takes 40,000 mammograms in a year. When WCBC's parent practice, West Coast Radiology Centers, expanded to include a dedicated breast care group; they extended that philosophy to the newest segment of their practice and launched WCBC as a fully digital operation.

April 12, 2007

According to Dr. Elizabeth Brown, Medical Director at the Breast Center, one of the most important factors in considering the move to digital was the publication of the results of the Digital Mammographic Imaging Screening Trial (DMIST). In December of 2006, the Breast Center of Greensboro Imaging, located in Greensboro, North Carolina, completed its transition to a completely digital workflow, with the installation of their third Selenia digital mammography unit.

April 11, 2007

Suros Surgical Systems, Inc., a subsidiary of women's imaging leader, Hologic, Inc, announced today the commercial launch of the Suros CeleroT - the first U.S. FDA-cleared spring loaded, vacuum assisted core biopsy device for the breast ultrasound market.