The China Post
April 15, 2011
TAIPEI -- Taiwan's National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) announced yesterday a cooperation plan with a U.S. laboratory and manufacturer to jointly develop next-generation positron emission tomography (PET) technology that will significantly advance the diagnosis of breast cancer.
Under the terms of the project with the Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) and Aurora Imaging Technology Inc., the new PET technology will be used in combination with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to create the world's most progressive breast cancer diagnosis system, said NCKU officials.
According to Gene-Jack Wang, chairman of BNL's Medical Department, the new PET/MRI system will be able to accurately identify breast cancer tumors even when they are only 0.2 cm in size. Existing technology is unable to identify such tumors until they reach 4 cm.
The time required for an accurate diagnosis will also be shortened from 30 minutes to under 5 minutes, NCKU said.
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April 15, 2011
TAIPEI -- Taiwan's National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) announced yesterday a cooperation plan with a U.S. laboratory and manufacturer to jointly develop next-generation positron emission tomography (PET) technology that will significantly advance the diagnosis of breast cancer.
Under the terms of the project with the Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) and Aurora Imaging Technology Inc., the new PET technology will be used in combination with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to create the world's most progressive breast cancer diagnosis system, said NCKU officials.
According to Gene-Jack Wang, chairman of BNL's Medical Department, the new PET/MRI system will be able to accurately identify breast cancer tumors even when they are only 0.2 cm in size. Existing technology is unable to identify such tumors until they reach 4 cm.
The time required for an accurate diagnosis will also be shortened from 30 minutes to under 5 minutes, NCKU said.
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