More precise breast scan


Improved technology: Prof Sazilah (right) explaining the workings of the new imaging machine, which can detect lumps as small as one milimetre in size, to UMMC director Prof Datuk Dr Ikram Shah Ismail.

PETALING JAYA: Mammograms at the University Malaya Medical Centre will be even more accurate now that the facility has a Digital Breast Tomosynthesis machine.

Head of the centre’s department of biomedical imaging Prof Datin Dr Sazilah Ahmad Sarji said the machine uses a combination of 2D and 3D technologies to provide mammography images with greater accuracy.

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