Screening for breast cancer without X-rays: Lasers and sound merge in promising diagnostic technique
Monday, May 7, 2012 - 16:30
in Health & Medicine
In the first phase of clinical testing of a new imaging device, researchers in the Netherlands used photoacoustics rather than ionizing radiation to detect and visualize breast tumors. The team's preliminary results, which were conducted on 12 patients with diagnosed malignancies, have just been published.
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