It refers to line of mammography equipment advertising a very low radiation dose.
Beartooth Hospital seeks to use federal funding to purchase digital mammography equipment.
In 2010 Sanford Luverne installed digital mammography equipment and upgraded its CT scan and ultrasound equipment.
Today's technology makes much higher scores routine, according to manufacturers and physicists who work with mammography equipment.
This effectively increases the market size for breast cancer organizations, medical establishments, pharmaceutical manufacturers, and the makers of mammography equipment.
The commission said the combined entity would have high market shares in the markets for patient monitors, mobile X-ray machines and mammography equipment bought by hospitals.
As a backup to government inspections, mammography equipment must be checked annually by a medical physicist.
Ms. Sherman said that in 1991 she alerted two large makers of mammography equipment to the potential problem and filed complaints with the Food and Drug Administration.
Is it possible that the problem was the outdated mammography equipment used in the studies?
Then there's the cost of leasing the mammography equipment, developing and storing the films and file-room personnel.