Aurora Dedicated Breast MRI Now Available at the Comprehensive Breast Center of The Don and Sybil Harrington Cancer Center.AMARILLO, Texas “Amarillo” redirects here. For other uses, see Amarillo (disambiguation). Amarillo is the 14th-largest city in the U.S. state of Texas and the seat of Potter County. -- Aurora Imaging Technology Inc. today announced the Aurora([R]) 1.5Tesla Dedicated Breast MRI 1. (application) MRI - Magnetic Resonance Imaging. 2. MRI - Measurement Requirements and Interface. System has been installed and is now available to patients at the Comprehensive Breast Center of The Don and Sybil Harrington Cancer Center. The Cancer Center was founded for the purpose of bringing cancer care closer to home by making available state-of-the-art technologies for early detection, diagnosis and treatment of cancer. More than twenty years TWENTY YEARS. The lapse of twenty years raises a presumption of certain facts, and after such a time, the party against whom the presumption has been raised, will be required to prove a negative to establish his rights. 2. later, the Cancer Center remains dedicated to providing the highest quality patient care, cancer education and research to continually raise the standard of cancer care in the area. The addition of the Aurora System adds to this philosophy. The Aurora System is the only Food and Drug Administration (FDA FDA abbr. Food and Drug Administration FDA, n.pr See Food and Drug Administration. FDA, n.pr the abbreviation for the Food and Drug Administration. ) cleared dedicated breast MRI system specifically designed for the detection, diagnosis and treatment monitoring of breast disease. "We have been performing breast MRI for approximately three years using a whole body system, and although we were obtaining good images, we wanted a state-of-the-art system that was dedicated to the breast," said Gary Aragon, M.D., breast diagnostic specialist. "The Aurora System offers phenomenal detail and spatial resolution (Data West Research Agency definition: see GIS glossary.) A measure of the accuracy or detail of a graphic display, expressed as dots per inch, pixels per line, lines per millimeter, etc. It is a measure of how fine an image is, usually expressed in dots per inch (dpi). , superior to what we had before." "Our commitment to manufacturing the highest quality MRI system for the detection of breast cancer has attracted many of the nation's finest breast centers and we are proud to partner with the Comprehensive Breast Center of The Don and Sybil Harrington Cancer Center as we expand the availability of the Aurora System throughout the U.S.," said Olivia Ho Cheng, president and chief executive officer, Aurora Imaging Technology Inc. About the Comprehensive Breast Center of The Don and Sybil Harrington Cancer Center The Don and Sybil Harrington Cancer Center, an affiliate of Baptist St. Anthony's Health System, is a nonprofit, community cancer center providing care to cancer patients throughout Amarillo and the surrounding 26 counties of the Texas Panhandle, eastern New Mexico Eastern New Mexico is a region of the U.S. state of New Mexico. The region is sometimes termed the High Plains. It is generally located at an altitude of over 4,000 feet and is mostly characterized by relatively level terrain. , western Oklahoma Western Oklahoma can usually be defined as all territory west of Interstate 35, and west of Oklahoma City. It is usually broken up into two primary regions: Northwestern Oklahoma and Southwestern Oklahoma. , southeast Colorado and southwest Kansas. About Aurora Imaging Technology Inc. Aurora Imaging Technology Inc. is a private company based in North Andover North Andover (ăn`dōvər), town (1990 pop. 22,792), Essex co., NE Mass., on the Merrimack River, in a dairy and farm area; settled c.1644, set off from Andover and inc. 1855. , Mass. committed to expanding the fight against breast cancer. Aurora strives to manufacture the highest quality and most cost-effective breast MRI solutions and partners with a growing number of the nation's finest breast care centers to provide the ultimate in the detection, diagnosis, biopsy and treatment of breast cancer. The Aurora System is in clinical use at a growing number of leading breast care centers in the U.S., Europe and Asia. To find an Aurora Breast MRI System near you, visit www.auroramri.com. |
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