Search Tag: microwave imaging

Women's Health

Microwave-breast-imaging-offers-a-safe-and-effective-screening-option

2021 21 Sep

Microwave breast imaging (MBI) is an emerging non-invasive technology for breast tumour detection that offers safer and more comfortable breast cancer screening. Its primary advantage over conventional screening methods (e.g., mammography) is that it neither requires ionising radiation nor breast compression. Furthermore, conventional mammography’s...Read more

IMAGING Management

Microwave-imaging-better-safer-cheaper

2014 19 Dec

New research suggests that a cheaper, better and safer way to look for signs of breast cancer may be with microwaves. Neil Epstein, a NSERC CREATE I3T postdoctoral fellow at the University of Calgary in Canada and his colleagues -- engineering professor Paul Meaney of Dartmouth College's Thayer School of Engineering and Keith Paulsen, director...Read more