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Cancer Detector

CT Urography Helps Radiologists Find Urinary Tract Cancer Earlier

July 1, 2003

A new high-tech imaging tool is leading to quicker diagnosis for patients with urinary tract cancers. A CT scanner takes hundreds of images that the software turns into a 3D model of the urinary tract in less than a minute. The models help doctors pinpoint tumors as small as a few millimeters before they spread.


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Martha J. Heil
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American Institute of Physics
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