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Private mammography provider in Switzerland joins the fight against osteoporosis

11/23/2011 3:00 AM EST  -   SECTRA
Centre d’Imagerie de Morges, an imaging center in the canton of Vaud, is the first facility in Switzerland to offer women an opportunity to combine their mammography examination with osteoporosis detection in a single examination. In this manner, women can examine their bone health and prevent fractures at an early stage, thereby avoiding unnecessary suffering and healthcare costs, and the center can give better...

Sectra launches support for breast tomosynthesis images in PACS

11/11/2011 3:00 AM EST  -   SECTRA
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...

Sectra enters the Russian market with new partnership

6/22/2011 3:00 AM EST  -   SECTRA
The Swedish IT and medical technology company Sectrahas signed a distribution agreement with McBrothers, a leading medical technology company based in St Petersburg, Russia.
McBrothers represents a number of internationally renowned manufacturers of a wide range of state-of-the-art medical equipment. Through this partnership, McBrothers becomes a distributor of Sectra’s medical systems in the western regions of...
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Major Norwegian private healthcare provider takes up fight against osteoporosis

6/21/2011 3:06 AM EST  -   SECTRA
Unilabs Norway AS in Oslo, a leading private healthcare provider, is now offering women the opportunity to combine their mammography examination with osteoporosis detection in a single examination using Sectra’s online service. In this way, women can examine their bone health and, at an early stage, prevent fractures by making lifestyle changes or having...
Using Sectra’s method, which is offered as an online...
Sectra MicroDose Mammography examination
 

Sectra receives FDA clearance for MicroDose Mammography modality

5/4/2011 2:00 AM EST  -   SECTRA
First-of-its-kind technology enables women to benefit from significant reduction of radiation exposure Women in the US will now have the same opportunity as million of European women already have; to undergo mammography with significantly lower radiation dose. This is the result of FDA’s (Food and Drug Administration) clearance of the Swedish IT and medical technology company Sectra’s digital mammography system,...

Sectra MicroDose Mammography approved for sales in Russia

4/19/2011 2:40 AM EST  -   SECTRA
Healthcare providers in Russia can now offer women mammography with the market’s lowest radiation dose. This opportunity is a result of the Russian authorities’ approval of Sectra's digital mammography system, Sectra MicroDose Mammography[1].
With its 140 million inhabitants, Russia has around 6,000 hospitals and clinics. Half of these perform mammography today, and a very small number of them use digital...

More women in Luxembourg to benefit from mammography with lowest possible dose

3/18/2011 4:00 AM EST  -   SECTRA
Luxembourg has invested in two additional digital Sectra MicroDose Mammography systems for their breast screening program. With this investment even more women in Luxembourg will benefit from mammography examinations with the lowest radiation dose on the market.
Three hospitals in Luxembourg made their first investments in Sectra’s unique, photon...
MicroDose examination
 

First order in North America for Sectra MicroDose Mammography

3/7/2011 3:00 AM EST  -   SECTRA
The women of Canada will soon benefit from low-dose mammography. Trillium Radiology Associates, which operates private diagnostic imaging facilities in Toronto and Mississauga, has invested in four digital mammography systems from the IT and medical technology company Sectra. The system was sold by Xtron Imaging Inc., Sectra’s new distribution partner for Canada.
Using Sectra’s mammography system, Sectra...

Sectra reveals initial clinical results of color mammography

3/3/2011 2:30 AM EST  -   SECTRA
The first clinical results from a research project focused on spectral (color) mammography shows promising diagnostic benefits for breast cancer. Published in the February issue of Radiology, the results will be presented at a symposium dedicated to breast cancer detection and ways of improving cancer detection with photon counting...
Single shot spectral imaging is enabled using Sectra’s unique photon counting...

ECR mammography symposium: How to improve cancer detection while lowering radiat...

2/24/2011 3:00 AM EST  -   SECTRA
With a proven mortality decrease of up to 45%, mammography screening is arguably the best tool for finding cancers early. However, we still miss a significant fraction of the cancers. Digital mammography was a great leap forward, but what can we do next to increase the cancer detection rate?
At this symposium, we will receive a summary of the performance of digital mammography in the Irish screening program....