Microwave imaging system promises better, cheaper breast images for cancer screening
Tuesday, December 16, 2014 - 11:00
in Health & Medicine
Although currently available diagnostic screening systems for breast cancer like X-ray computed tomography (CT) and mammography are effective at detecting early signs of tumors, they are far from perfect, subjecting patients to ionizing radiation and sometimes inflicting discomfort on women who are undergoing screening because of the compression of the breast that is required to produce diagnostically useful images.