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Dr. Ralph Weissleder and his colleagues at Massachusetts General Hospital have developed a miniaturized nuclear magnetic resonance scanner, or micro-NMR to effectively increase both the speed and accuracy of tumor diagnoses.
Prototype portable scanner provides fast, accurate cancer diagnosis
26/Feb/2011
Capable of diagnosing a tumor in less than an hour with more than 96 percent accuracy, the system is a huge improvement over the pathology process’ 74-84 percent accuracy rate.
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