Mammography device developer BioLucent will introduce its SAVI applicator, a multicatheter device for use in accelerated partial-breast irradiation (APBI), at the American Society for Therapeutic Radiation and Oncology (ASTRO) meeting in Philadelphia next week.
Aliso Viejo, CA-based BioLucent said that the SAVI device is a hybrid of two earlier APBI approaches, and that it combines the tissue-sparing dosimetry of interstitial brachytherapy with single-entry intracavitary brachytherapy.
The SAVI product includes an expandable bundle of catheters that surrounds a central lumen. The applicator is placed by the physician into the lumpectomy cavity through a small incision, according to BioLucent.
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
October 26, 2006
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