Dilon Technologies will showcase its dedicated scintimammography system, Dilon 6800, in its RSNA booth. The Newport News, VA-based company, which calls its approach breast-specific gamma imaging (BSGI), was established in 1996 out of a partnership with the U.S. Department of Energy's Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, also in Newport News.
In 1999, Dilon received clearance from the FDA for its technology and made its RSNA debut. Since then, it has weathered financial setbacks, but rallied to refine the unit and establish a sales and marketing force.
Configured much like a mammography unit, Dilon 6800 allows a woman to sit upright with her breast lying on the detector. The camera's gamma isolation shield holds the breast in place from the top, while also protecting the detector from background artifacts and reducing background scatter radiation.
Dilon 6800's detector incorporates 3,000 3 x 3-mm pixelized scintillation crystals and 48 miniature photomultiplier tubes, and measures 6 x 8 inches with 0.4 inches of dead space. Its detector and collimator can be positioned against the chest wall and rotated 360 degrees as the breast is imaged.
By Kate Madden Yee
AuntMinnie.com staff writer
November 10, 2004
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