Radar and Breast Cancer

Radar and Breast Cancer (Print This)
06/16/2005
A technology developed to find land mines might one day help save many more lives.

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Magda El-Shenawee, a University of Arkansas engineer, thinks radar can be used to spot cancer buried in breast tissue. Current mammograms make 2-D pictures by shooting x-rays through a breast squished between two plates. They can save your life, but it's definitely not comfortable. So El-Shanawee and others are developing small portable radar systems that would send harmless electromagnetic waves through a naturally-shaped breast. She says a suspicious lump would scatter the waves in a way that engineers can turn into a precise 3-D image. With the National Academy of Engineering, Randy Atkins, WTOP Radio.

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