News : Breast Imaging PACS

At RSNA 2011 in Chicago, Sectra will showcase support for the display and review of breast tomosynthesis images in Sectra Breast Imaging PACS.
Tomosynthesis is an emerging technology within breast imaging. Since most PACS do not support images of this type, a dedicated modality workstation is usually needed in order to read tomosynthesis images. With Sectra’s solution, mammography clinics will now be able to...

Fast and highly efficient reading of screening mammograms will improve the breast screening service to the women in the Kent region in UK. This will be achieved with a region-wide IT-solution, Sectra Breast Imaging PACS,  managing all breast images from 270,000 examinations done each year by three breast screening centers in Kent.
By linking the hospitals’ mammography operations together, an efficient flow of...

Shelton, CT – February 9, 2011 – International medical technology company, Sectra (NASDAQ OMX Stockholm: SECT B), announces the recent upgrade of its Breast Imaging PACS to the latest version, IDS7/mx, at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF), San Francisco, CA, and Elizabeth Wende Breast Care, LLC (EWBC), Rochester, NY. The response of both centers has been enthusiastically positive.

Today, a private mammography clinic in Germany, Gemeinschaftspraxis für Diagnostische Radiologie und Nuklearmedizin, launched the first German mobile screening unit equipped with Sectra MicroDose Mammography. Following this launch, Sectra’s mobile MicroDose solution is now in use in five countries.
The distance and time required to reach a fixed center is one of the obstacles women face when attending a...

Sectra has signed an agreement with Queensland Health’s BreastScreen Queensland Program for the provision of a statewide PACS solution to significantly improve the efficiency of mammography screening services.  The multi-year contract has an order value of approximately AUD 9 million (approximately SEK 60 million).
The breast cancer screening program in Queensland will link BreastScreen Screening and Assessment...

The Swedish IT and medical-technology company Sectra has been awarded a contract to install a dedicated Breast Imaging PACS and three MicroDose Mammography units for use in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT).
The new integrated mammography solution will provide radiologists with the ability to access digital images and information.  This way, the screening and reading centres in Canberra will be able to...

Shelton, CT – May 27, 2010 – The IT and medical technology company, Sectra will demonstrate its market leading web-based RIS/PACS at the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine’s (SIIM) annual meeting held June 3-6 in Minneapolis, MN. Visit Sectra at booth #611 to learn more about integrated RIS/PACS and breast imaging systems.
Sectra will highlight its latest web-based PACS release, IDS7. Sectra PACS is...