SALT LAKE CITY, May 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — A newly
awarded U.S. Patent will protect TechniScan, Inc’s., (OTC
Bulletin Board: TSNI) novel way to image, biopsy and treat breast
cancer.
U.S. Patent 7,699,783 B2 titled “Method for Imaging and Treating
a Breast” covers the company’s design of a 3-D, Warm Bath
Ultrasound™ system that images while a woman lies prone on a
table with her breast comfortably immersed in a warm water,
state-of-the art scanning system.
Since she is lying on a table with her breast through an
opening, the breast is in a pendant, uncompressed position that
allows for a true three-dimensional image to be constructed.
“Imaging of the non-compressed pendant breast, similar to
positioning for breast MRI, provides reproducible, 3-D anatomically
accurate detail,” said Yuri
Parisky, M.D., medical imaging director at Mammoth Hospital
in Calif. “It is the ideal position to image the breast.”
A vital element of the new patent is the table design of the
Warm Bath Ultrasound™ (WBU™) system, which rises above
the water bath tank after the scan. This functionality has three
key benefits: The woman remains on the same table for diagnostics
and treatment, it maintains the known position of the tumor or
lesion and allows the three-dimensional image to be utilized to
guide treatment instruments.
“In essence, our WBU system provides a 3-D navigational map of
the breast, and this could be useful to breast surgeons,
radiologists and oncologists,” said Barry
Hanover, chief operating officer at TechniScan and one of
the inventors of the system. “The fact that our table can also be
raised, with the breast maintain
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