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Oct 12, 2007

OCT tackles breast-cancer management

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) has been identified as a promising aid for breast-cancer diagnosis and treatment. Its generation of real-time, high-resolution, subsurface images could improve the accuracy of breast biopsies and offer immediate information on the size and spread of a cancer during surgery. The technique's effectiveness, of course, depends on the ability of the OCT images to provide diagnostically significant information. So OCT pioneers from MIT (Cambridge, MA) have teamed up with pathologists at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Centre and Harvard Medical School in Boston, MA, to see whether that is the case (Radiology 244 865).

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