Massachusetts Life Sciences Center has awarded Qianqian Fang, PhD, and Philips Healthcare a $500,000 grant aimed at equipping traditional mammography systems with a low-cost optical imaging system with the potential to dramatically improve breast cancer detection.

Mass General researcher gets grant to study optical breast imaging

03/May/2011

Whereas mammography traditionally provides radiologists with a 2D structural image from which to detect abnormalities, optical imaging offers functional information by allowing physicians to compare varying hemoglobin concentrations within healthy, benign and malignant breast tissues.

Source: Health Imaging & IT

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