{"id":1760,"date":"2010-10-27T12:33:52","date_gmt":"2010-10-27T16:33:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencebusiness.technewslit.com\/?p=1760"},"modified":"2010-10-27T12:33:52","modified_gmt":"2010-10-27T16:33:52","slug":"portable-scanner-enables-quicker-breast-cancer-detection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/?p=1760","title":{"rendered":"Portable Scanner Enables Quicker Breast Cancer Detection"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1762\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1762\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/BreastScanner_UnivManchester.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1762\" title=\"BreastScanner_UnivManchester\" src=\"http:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/BreastScanner_UnivManchester.jpg\" alt=\"Scanned breast tumor image (Univ of Manchester)\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/BreastScanner_UnivManchester.jpg 300w, https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/BreastScanner_UnivManchester-150x100.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1762\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(University of Manchester)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>An engineering professor at University of Manchester in the U.K. has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.manchester.ac.uk\/aboutus\/news\/display\/?id=6282\">invented a portable scanner<\/a> based on radio frequency (microwave) technology, which can show in a second the presence of tumors -\u2013 both malignant and benign -\u2013 in the breast of a patient on a computer. The device can be used at a primary care facility or even at home, rather than requiring a specialist.<\/p>\n<p>Engineering professor Zhipeng Wu, who invented the scanner, says concerned patients can receive real-time video images using the radio frequency scanner which would clearly and simply show the presence of a tumor (example pictured right). The patented real-time scanner uses computer tomography and works with the same basic technology as a mobile phone.<\/p>\n<p>Wu says radio frequency or microwave technology for breast cancer detection has been demonstrated by researchers in the US, Canada, and the U.K. Until now, however, it could take a few minutes for an image to be produced, and the test had to be done in a hospital or specialist care center.<\/p>\n<p>The main difference between traditional mammography and radio frequency scanning is that mammography works on density, while radio frequency technique works on dielectric contrasts between normal and diseased breast tissues. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.britannica.com\/EBchecked\/topic\/162630\/dielectric\">Dielectric media<\/a> cause polarization of the electrical flow into positive and negative charges.<\/p>\n<p>In Professor Wu&#8217;s device, as soon as the breast enters the cup an image appears on screen. The presence of a tumor or other abnormality will show up in red as the sensor detects the difference in tissue contrasts at radio frequencies.\u00a0 Malignant tissues have higher permittivity (effect on a dielectric medium) and conductivity and therefore appear differently than normal tissues on a screen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An engineering professor at University of Manchester in the U.K. has invented a portable scanner based on radio frequency (microwave) technology, which can show in a second the presence of tumors -\u2013 both malignant and benign -\u2013 in the breast of a patient on a computer. The device can be used at a primary care [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,15],"tags":[31,77,29,105,26],"class_list":["post-1760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-i-p","category-products","tag-biomedical","tag-medical-device","tag-patent","tag-physical-sciences","tag-university"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1760"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1765,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1760\/revisions\/1765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}