Combined optical imaging and mammography

Multimodality imaging has become the buzzword this decade as many medical systems that combine two or more imaging modalities have become commercially available. My first post is about a paper from Dr David Boas's research group at MGH (Fang et al, IEEE Trans Med Imaging, Jan 2009). This paper shows preliminary data and reconstructed images obtained from healthy subjects using a system that combines diffuse optical breast imaging with X-ray mammography. The analysis of pressure from breast compression as it affects blood re-distribution is extremely interesting. Highly recommended by me!