Thursday, Jul 3rd 2008 by Abby McVay
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Mammograms are one thing that if you bring it up in a room full of women, you’re bound to here a bit of grumbling. They are uncomfortable and apparently not always that accurate. Well now there is a new method in the works that is more accurate and one that is hopefully less painful.
Instead they are now using stereo mammograms, which is basically taking X-rays at slightly different angles. Then to see those in 3-D they wear special 3-D glasses.
They did a recent study and discovered that the stereo mammogram increased detection by 23% and decreased false alarms by 46%. Hopefully they will start using this new method more often and soon, since it quite obviously is the more superior way to go.
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yea…..um theres this company called biospace med that has been doing something much better…taking a 3D MRI-esque image with far less radiation. you can get a full 3d scan sent to the doctors computer. Their machine is called Eos.