Sectra to deliver MicroDose Mammography to BreastScreen Victoria screening program in Australia
The Swedish IT and medical-technology company Sectra has been awarded a contract to install four MicroDose Mammography units for use in Victoria. The Sectra MicroDose units offer improved or identical image quality at a lower radiation dose than other solutions in the market.
BreastScreen Victoria offers a free mammographic screening service to asymptomatic women in the target group of 50-69 years of age under the national population based screening program BreastScreen Australia.
The women in the region will be offered mammography screening with the new equipment that is being installed in four of BreastScreen Victoria’s sites by September 2010.
Since 2006, BreastScreen Victoria has used Sectra BreastImaging PACS for managing and archiving all digital breast images. BreastScreen Victoria encompasses a statewide network of eight screening and assessment centres, 32 fixed screening sites and 28 mobile screening locations. BreastScreen Victoria will conduct more than 200,000 screening mammograms in the coming year.
"Sectra is the leading provider of breast imaging PACS in Australia and we are also experiencing growing demand for Sectra MicroDose," says Scott Johnston Managing Director Sectra Australia and New Zealand.
For further information, please contact:
Dr. Torbjörn Kronander, President, Sectra Imtec AB, +46 705 23 52 27
Dr. Jan-Olof Brüer, CEO and President, Sectra AB, +46 13 23 52 09
About Sectra’s medical operations
Sectra develops and sells IT-systems and products for radiology, mammography and orthopaedic departments. More than 1,100 hospitals worldwide use the system daily, together performing over 52 million radiology examinations annually. This makes Sectra one of the world leading companies within systems for handling digital radiology images (PACS). In Scandinavia, Sectra is the market leader with more than 50% of all film-free installations. Outside Scandinavia, Sectra’s system is installed at customers in North America and most major countries in Europe and the Far East.
About the Sectra Group
Sectra successfully develops and sells cutting-edge products in the expansive niche segments of medical systems and secure communication systems. The company was founded in 1978 and has its roots in the Linköping Institute of Technology in Sweden. Today, Sectra has offices in twelve countries and operates through partners worldwide. Sales in the 2009/2010 fiscal year totaled SEK 848 million. The Sectra share is quoted on the NASDAQ OMX Stockholm AB exchange. For more information, visit www.sectra.com.
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