PMID- 11541150
OWN - NASA
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 19981119
LR  - 20191210
IS  - 0094-5765 (Print)
IS  - 0094-5765 (Linking)
VI  - 41
IP  - 4-10
DP  - 1997 Aug-Nov
TI  - Aerospace technology transfer to breast cancer imaging.
PG  - 515-23
AB  - In the United States in 1996, an estimated 44,560 women died of breast cancer, 
      and 184,300 new cases were diagnosed. Advances in space technology are now making 
      significant improvements in the imaging technologies used in managing this 
      important foe. The first of these spinoffs, a digital spot mammography system 
      used to perform stereotactic fine-needle breast biopsy, uses a backside-thinned 
      CCD developed originally for the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrometer. This paper 
      describes several successful biomedical applications which have resulted from 
      collaborative technology transfer programs between the National Aeronautics and 
      Space Administration (NASA), the National Cancer Institute (NCI), and the U.S. 
      Dept. of Health and Human Services Office on Women's Health (OWH). These programs 
      have accelerated the introduction of direct digital mammography by two years. In 
      follow-on work, RTI is now assisting the HHS Office on Women's Health to identify 
      additional opportunities for transfer of aerospace, defense, and intelligence 
      technologies to image-guided detection, diagnosis, and treatment of breast 
      cancer. The technology identification and evaluation effort culminated in a May 
      1997 workshop, and the formative technology development partnerships are 
      discussed.
FAU - Winfield, D L
AU  - Winfield DL
AD  - Research Triangle Institute, Research Triangle Park, NC, USA.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.
PT  - Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.
PL  - Netherlands
TA  - Acta Astronaut
JT  - Acta astronautica
JID - 9890631
MH  - Astronomical Phenomena
MH  - Astronomy
MH  - Biopsy, Needle/methods
MH  - Breast Neoplasms/*diagnosis/*diagnostic imaging
MH  - Crystallography, X-Ray
MH  - Diagnosis, Computer-Assisted/*trends
MH  - Female
MH  - Humans
MH  - Image Processing, Computer-Assisted
MH  - Interinstitutional Relations
MH  - Mammography/instrumentation/methods
MH  - National Institutes of Health (U.S.)
MH  - Neural Networks, Computer
MH  - Radiographic Image Enhancement/instrumentation/methods/*trends
MH  - Radiographic Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted
MH  - *Technology Transfer
MH  - Telemedicine/trends
MH  - United States
MH  - United States Dept. of Health and Human Services
MH  - *United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration
OID - NASA: 00022568
GN  - NASA: Grant numbers: NAS1-20325
GN  - NASA: Grant numbers: 96EF96020101D
GN  - NASA: Grant numbers: 97T79004601D
EDAT- 1997/08/01 00:00
MHDA- 2001/09/11 10:01
CRDT- 1997/08/01 00:00
PHST- 1997/08/01 00:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2001/09/11 10:01 [medline]
PHST- 1997/08/01 00:00 [entrez]
AID - 10.1016/s0094-5765(98)00054-x [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Acta Astronaut. 1997 Aug-Nov;41(4-10):515-23. doi: 10.1016/s0094-5765(98)00054-x.