What's holding industry back? Advances in breast imaging
Monday, April 8, 2024
4:30pm – 4:55pm
Location: Austin G - 6th Floor
New breast-specific scanning systems have been developed in recent years. Many of these systems have not yet achieved widespread clinical adoption. This industry-led session will discuss the medical, scientific, and other factors that are limiting the implementation of these systems with a goal toward connecting industry, physicians, and scientists in order to facilitate providing these technologies for better patient care. In particular: We discuss technical details of 3D ultrasound tomography (UT) and present status of FDA clearances and clinics presently using the technology. We show images of 3D UT, review literature related to clinical studies showing improvement in AUC of ROC and discuss why this technology has not been available heretofore. 3D UT is presently being used for a longitudinal study at Sunnybrook, CA, is deployed domestically and internationally in breast clinics. We review the quantitative speed of sound images and 360 degree compounded reflection images and the resolution cell measurements on phantoms. These validate the use in following tumors treated with NAC and determining doubling time in a shorter time than MRI.
Learning Objectives:
Compare available breast-specific ultrasound scanning systems on the market.
Identify patients who could benefit from breast-specific ultrasound scanning systems.
Discuss the barriers preventing and potential opportunities for widespread clinical adoption of breast-specific ultrasound scanning systems.