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Article: Trials begin on high-tech screening test.(Tripler Army Medical Center to host the HyperSpectral Diagnostic Imaging equipment test)
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- Medical Devices & Surgical Technology Week
- Article date:
- April 21, 2002
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2002 APR 21 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A technology developed to enhance images from space and locate submarines from the air is being used to screen for the early stages of cervical cancer in women. The first U.S. clinical trials have begun at Tripler Army Medical Center.
The HyperSpectral Diagnostic Imaging equipment uses a seven-second noninvasive test to take a picture of the cervix, said Nicholas J. Susner, president and chief executive officer of Honolulu-based Science & Technology International (STI).
The instrument sees nearly 300 separate colors, creating a picture of the cervix containing detail not visible to the naked eye or through a ...