Dilon Technologies

Kate Madden Yee
Nov 6, 2005

Newport News, VA-based Dilon Technologies will showcase its dedicated scintimammography system, Dilon 6800 Gamma Camera, at the RSNA show. The company calls its approach breast-specific gamma imaging (BSGI).

Configured much like a mammography unit, Dilon 6800 allows a woman to sit upright with her breast lying on the detector. The camera's gamma isolation shield holds the breast in place from the top while also protecting the detector from background artifacts and reducing background scatter radiation. Dilon 6800's detector and collimator can be positioned against the chest wall and rotated 360° as the breast is imaged.

Dilon has won several contracts recently, installing Dilon 6800 at the Providence Centralia Hospital in Centralia, WA, in February and at the Lahey Clinic in Burlington, MA, in August.

By Kate Madden Yee
AuntMinnie.com contributing writer
November 7, 2005

Copyright © 2005 AuntMinnie.com

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