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As the imaging community is warming to mammography systems based on full-field digital technology, a Swedish company is developing what it hopes will be the next generation of digital breast screening: a 3D mammography unit with a novel digital detector design.
XCounter is the brainchild of a pair of Swedish space scientists who have hung out a shingle at their Stockholm-based start-up. Their story is the subject of this week's Insider Exclusive, available to Business & Industry Insiders before the rest of AuntMinnie's members can access it.
XCounter executives say their technology is based on a system that uses a 3D acquisition to create breast images. It's a much different approach from conventional 2D mammography systems, and even from the new generation of tomosynthesis units that create limited 3D images from 2D slices.
XCounter's digital technology is also a new approach. Rather than use digital CCDs or flat-panel sensors based on amorphous silicon or amorphous selenium, the company has developed a detector that uses noble gases in a sealed box as an x-ray detector medium.
The company claims that the end result is a system that produces images with even more detail than CT, with less radiation dose. Find out more about XCounter's technology by clicking here.
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