Healthcare Industry News: digital mammography
News Release - March 9, 2007
Premiere of Next-Generation Sectra MicroDose Mammography at the European Congress of Radiology
STOCKHOLM, Sweden--(HSMN NewsFeed)--Today, at the European Congress of Radiology in Vienna, the IT and medical-technology company Sectra (STO:SECTB) launches a new model of its full-field digital mammography system providing the lowest radiation dose on the market. The next-generation Sectra MicroDose Mammography model has a completely new design and can be equipped with a stereotactic add-on for clinical examinations.Sectra MicroDose Mammography provides the lowest radiation dose on the market, unsurpassed throughput, customized workflow and outstanding ergonomics. This ensures safe, stress-free and quick examinations for the patients. The radiologists receive the results quicker and the radiographers benefit from an improved ergonomic working environment.
"The next-generation Sectra MicroDose Mammography, combined with our system for management and archiving of digital breast images, enables us to offer our customers a total solution developed to fit all mammography environments, from high-volume screening to clinical mammography," says Jesper Soderqvist, President of Sectra's mammography operations.
Photon-counting technology - a prerequisite for the market's lowest radiation dose A growing number of medical technology providers point to photon-counting as the future in medical imaging. Photon counting is a technology for higher image quality, lower dose and fundamental advantages in several future advanced applications. Currently, Sectra is the only company offering a mammography system based on a photon-counting detector technology.
About Sectra's medical operations Sectra is one of the world's major diagnostic imaging system (PACS) providers. More than 900 hospitals worldwide use the system daily and more than 40 million radiology examinations are diagnosed in Sectra's system annually. In Scandinavia, Sectra is the market leader with more than 50% of all film-free installations. Outside Scandinavia, Sectra's system is installed at customers in North America and most major countries in Europe and the Far East.
About the Sectra Group Sectra successfully develops and sells cutting-edge products in the expansive niche segments of medical systems and secure communication systems. The company was founded in 1978 and has its roots in the Linkoping Institute of Technology in Sweden. Today, Sectra has offices in eleven countries and operates through partners worldwide. Sales in the 2005/2006 fiscal year totaled SEK 564 million. Since 1999, Sectra shares have been listed on the Nordic Exchange. For more information about Sectra visit http://www.sectra.com.
Source: Sectra
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