Radar imaging enhancing breast diagnostics
Breast cancer diagnosis: urgent unmet needs
Breast cancer is the commonest cancer in women, with rising incidence yearly - especially among younger women.
Early diagnosis is key for survival.
Yet, 2D x-ray mammography, the standard screening method, underperforms in dense tissue, detecting no more than 60% of cancers.
This impacts over half of active women and most of the younger ones, under 50.
As a result, younger women face disproportionally high mortality rate due to delayed diagnosis.
Supplemental screening for high-risk populations of young, dense breasts remains an unmet need and an active research area.
MIMA’s Radar Imaging Enhancing Breast Diagnostics
MIMA aims to operate in this space, developing an alternative method for radiation-free 3D imaging of the breast, at no compression, using electromagnetic waves of very low-power at microwave frequencies - similar to mobile phones.
Published results of early clinical tests showed promising sensitivity of the method in dense breast tissue.
In addition, the system integrates radar imaging technology, enabling automated reporting of suspicious Regions-Of-Interest in the volumetric image, and computation of characteristics of those regions for malignancy scoring, defining a unique advantage.
It also features a standardized scan protocol operable by trained technologists, avoiding the need for specialized radiologist resource during the scan.