As one of the first institutions worldwide, the Institute of Radiology at the University Hospital Erlangen uses a spiral breast CT for breast diagnostics. A technological milestone that allows the Academic Breast Centre Franconia, the university hospital’s special breast unit, to further improve its first-class interdisciplinary breast cancer patient care.

The new breast imaging modality allows for high-resolution, 3D imaging at low dose levels.

But it’s not just the breakthrough technology nu:view impresses with: unlike mammography, the patient-friendly examination procedure does not require any breast compression.

Read more about how the University Hospital Erlangen uses nu:view for the assessment of suspicious lesions and pre-operative planning

Images: © HarryPhoto/Haris Nalbantic for AB-CT – Advanced Breast-CT,                                                                                                                                                                                                   Official inauguration of the breast CT at the University Hospital Erlangen, March 2020