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Seno Medical Instruments Appoints Steve Miller as SVP of Engineering
January 17, 2017SAN ANTONIO, Jan. 18, 2017 /PRNewswire/ – Seno Medical Instruments, Inc., the leader in improving the process of diagnosing breast cancer through the development of an opto-acoustic (OA/US) imaging device, today announced the appointment of Steve Miller as SVP of Engineering. Mr. Miller previously served as the Vice President of Product Realization at FUJIFILM SonoSite, with headquarters in Bothell, Washington. Mr. Miller has dedicated the majority of his 30-year career to the development of innovative medical imaging products that affect patients and customers. He is personally an inventor on more than 30 patents, while leading teams that received more than 200 patents.
“Steve has led international engineering teams in the development of innovative and high performance ultrasound imaging systems. His customer centric approach to product development addressing customer needs at major imaging companies is why he will be an exceptional addition to our leadership team,” said Tom Umbel, CEO of Seno Medical. “Steve brings the ultrasound system knowledge and experience from top global imaging companies.”
Mr. Miller was responsible for taking new concepts to volume production, including engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, and product management at SonoSite. FUJFILM SonoSite is the global leader in ultrasound products designed specifically for point-of-care markets. Prior to SonoSite, Steve held several leadership roles at GE Healthcare; his last role at GE was the Engineering General Manager for GE Healthcare’s Global Ultrasound Probe division, where he managed engineering teams in seven countries.
Commenting on his appointment, Mr. Miller said, “I am very excited about the possibilities of opto-acoustic imaging. I was extremely impressed when I saw clinical results and heard feedback from several recognized expert clinicians. The Seno team is clearly very passionate about the realization of this innovative breakthrough technology and its ability to improve the care for so many affected by the risk of cancer – as many close to me have been impacted.”
The Imagio® OA/US breast imaging system was designed to identify the two functional hallmarks of cancer: the presence of abnormal blood vessels (tumor angiogenesis) and the relative reduction in oxygen content of blood that occurs in cancer compared to benign masses and normal tissues. The technology used by Seno’s OA/US is non-invasive and does not require patient exposure to contrast agents, ionizing radiation (x-ray) or radioisotopes, which are required for other modalities that are capable of functional imaging, including magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) or positron emission tomography (PET). The Imagio breast imaging system received CE mark approval in 2015 and is currently an investigational device in the United States.
The technology currently has CE mark outside the U.S. and is currently targeting Premarket Approval submission to the FDA, in early 2017.
About Seno Medical Instruments, Inc.
Seno Medical Instruments, Inc. is a San Antonio, Texas-based medical imaging company committed to the development and commercialization of a new modality in cancer diagnosis: opto-acoustic imaging. Seno’s Imagio breast imaging system fuses opto-acoustic technology with ultrasound (OA/US) to generate functional and anatomical images of the breast. The opto-acoustic images provide a unique blood map around suspicious breast masses while the ultrasound provides a traditional anatomic image. Through the appearance or absence of the two hallmark indicators of cancer – angiogenesis and deoxygenation – Seno believes that the Imagio OA/US breast imaging system will be a more effective tool to help radiologists confirm or rule out malignancy than current diagnostic imaging modalities – without exposing patients to potentially harmful ionizing radiation (x-rays) or contrast agents. To learn more about Seno Medical’s OA/US imaging technology and applications, visit www.SenoMedical.com.
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New Data Presented at San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium Confirms Correlation Between the Imagio™ Opto-Acoustic Breast Imaging System and Histologic Grade of Breast Masses
December 08, 2016Additional Data Validates Potential of Imagio™ Opto-Acoustic Breast Imaging System to Reduce Negative Biopsies
NEWS PROVIDED BY Seno Medical Instruments, Inc. Dec 09, 2016, 07:00 ET SAN ANTONIO, Dec. 9, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — Seno Medical Instruments, Inc., the company pioneering the development of opto-acoustic (OA) technology as a new tool to improve the process of diagnosing breast cancer, today announced results from two analyses of the company’s European MAESTRO post-market surveillance study. The two analyses were presented at the 2016 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium (SABCS) in San Antonio, Texas.
MAESTRO, a controlled, multi-center, observational, post-market surveillance and clinical follow-up study, was designed to assess the diagnostic value (specificity and sensitivity) of OA to conventional diagnostic ultrasound (CDU) in suspicious masses classified as BI-RADS 4a and 4b. Investigators first performed CDU to reach a diagnosis and decision to biopsy followed by an Imagio™ OA examination. Two hundred female subjects with undiagnosed suspicious masses enrolled in the study.
The first analysis evaluated the correlation between OA imaging results and histologic data of breast masses and found that there was a statistically significant correlation between the OA breast imaging results and those based on histopathologic analysis.
“These studies are an important step forward in the development of noninvasive breast imaging technology. Evaluation of the Imagio™ system significantly included an independent analysis of the patient’s pathology, unparalleled in the pre-release development of any breast imaging technology,” said F. Lee Tucker, MD, FCAP and pathologist for the PIONEER study in the U.S. “The findings indicate the Imagio™ system can provide an accurate and noninvasive differentiation of benign from cancerous breast masses and will be an important means of reducing the number of benign breast biopsies.”
The histopathological examination revealed 146 benign masses and 67 malignant masses. For each mass, five pre-determined OA features, three internal features, and two external features were evaluated. The three internal scores (vessels, blush, and hemoglobin) and two external features (capsular boundary zone and peripheral boundary zone) were summed together and separately for testing relationships utilizing traditional histopathology measures. The OA feature scores statistically significantly differentiate between benign and malignant masses and appear to correlate to histologic grade.
The second study, an interim analysis from the MAESTRO study, presented OA imaging downclassification and upclassifciation data, which showed that the Imagio™ system improved physicians’ ability to accurately classify breast masses as malignant or benign compared to using traditional ultrasound. Results from this study were first presented at the Annual Scientific Meeting of the European Society of Breast Imaging (EUSOBI), the second largest conference in the world dedicated to breast cancer imaging, in September 2016 in Paris.
“The interim results from the MAESTRO study provide further evidence in a real-world setting, that the Imagio breast imaging system is a viable diagnostic tool to more accurately assess breast masses for malignancy compared to diagnostic ultrasound,” said Ruud Pijnappel MD, PhD, Professor Breast Radiology at UMC Utrecht, Netherlands and CEO of LRBC – Dutch Reference Centre for Screening. “We believe the final results of the MAESTRO study to be presented in 2017 will confirm these interim results.”
“Together, the two data presentations presented at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium reinforce our belief that the Imagio breast imaging system will be an important tool to clinicians to evaluate suspicious masses while providing greater comfort to the patient,” said Tom Umbel, CEO of Seno Medical Instruments. “We will soon launch the Imagio system in Europe and look forward to the presenting the MAESTRO final results and the results of our pivotal trial in the US – PIONEER – in 2017.”
Seno Medical Instruments expects to announce the final results from the MAESTRO study in early 2017. Results from the company’s PIONEER study in the U.S. of more than 2,000 patients are expected to be announced in the second half of 2017. Seno Medical is targeting their PMA submission for the Imagio system to the U.S Food and Drug Administration in early 2017.
Seno’s Imagio system co-registers and fuses opto-acoustics, a technology based on “lightin and sound-out,” with diagnostic ultrasound – (OA/US). The opto-acoustic images provide a unique blood map in and around suspicious breast masses. Cancerous tumors grow relatively quickly and require significant amounts of blood and oxygen, so a network of blood vessels grows around cancerous masses. Imagio OA/US breast imaging system provides real-time images of these networks and a map of relative oxygen-rich or oxygendepleted blood. Unlike other functional fusion technologies, Imagio uses no x-rays (ionizing radiation) or injectable contrast agents or radio-isotopes to obtain its information, thereby reducing the patient’s exposure to any potentially harmful aspects of imaging.
About Seno Medical Instruments, Inc.
Seno Medical Instruments, Inc. is a San Antonio, Texas-based medical imaging company committed to the development and commercialization of a new modality in cancer diagnosis: opto-acoustic imaging. Seno’s Imagio breast imaging system fuses opto-acoustic technology with ultrasound to generate functional and anatomical images of the breast. The opto-acoustic images provide a unique color map in and around suspicious breast masses while the ultrasound provides a traditional anatomic image. Through the appearance or absence of the two hallmark indicators of cancer – angiogenesis and deoxygenation – Seno believes that Imagio images will be a more effective tool to help radiologists confirm or rule out malignancy than current diagnostic imaging modalities – without exposing patients to potentially harmful ionizing radiation (x-rays) or contrast agents. Seno’s platform technology may also address other disease applications in organs other than the breast, as well as assessing other breast problems, such as early response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy or hormonal treatments of breast cancer. To learn more about Seno’s optoacoustic imaging technology and applications, visit http://www.SenoMedical.com
About the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium
The San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium is an international symposium directed primarily towards academic and private physicians and researchers involved in breast cancer in medical, surgical, gynecologic, and radiation oncology, as well as other appropriate health care professionals. Approximately 7,500 attendees from more than 90 countries are expected to attend.
About Breast Cancer
According to the American Cancer Society, an estimated 246,660 new cases of invasive breast cancer, along with 61,000 new cases of non-invasive (in situ) breast cancer, will be diagnosed in U.S. women in 2016. Additionally, there are over 1.6 million biopsies performed annually and recent reported data noted an 81% “false positive” rate of biopsy procedures – the portion of biopsies that do not lead to breast cancer surgery. An estimated 40,450 women in the U.S. are expected to die in 2016 from breast cancer. Only lung cancer accounts for more cancer deaths in women. \
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1.J Womens Health, September 2014, Vol. 23:S1,
2.An Actuarial Analysis of Breast Cancer Screening and Follow-on Diagnostics in a Commercially Insured Population.(2014).Millman, Inc., NY. http://www.milliman.com/uploadedFiles/insight/2014/actuarial-analysis-breast-cancer-screening.pdf
3.U.S. Breast Cancer Statistics | Breastcancer.org. (2016). Breastcancer.org. http://www.breastcancer.org/symptoms/understand_bc/statistics SOURCE Seno Medical Instruments, Inc. Related Links http://www.senomedical.com
Updated Data from Pivotal European Study at 2016 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium
December 04, 2016Seno Medical Instruments to Present Updated Data from Pivotal European Study at 2016 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium
SAN ANTONIO, Dec. 5, 2016 — Seno Medical Instruments, Inc., the company pioneering the development of opto-acoustic technology as a new tool to improve the process of diagnosing breast cancer, today announced that it will present data from its European MAESTRO post-market surveillance and clinical follow-up study at the 2016 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium (SABCS) taking place from December 6-10, 2016 at the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center in San Antonio, Texas.
Seno Medical Instruments will present two poster presentations on Friday, December 9:
Breast Biopsy Histology Relationships with Opto-Acoustic Imaging of Breast Masses, Poster Session 4, 7:30 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. CST, Hall 1
Opto-Acoustic Imaging of the Breast: Downclassification and Upclassification of Suspicious Breast Masses, Poster Session 4, 7:30 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. CST, Hall 1
Thomas Stavros, MD, FACR, FSRU, FRANZCR, Medical Director of Seno Medical Instruments, will present the histological analysis on behalf of Marc van de Vijver, MD, PhD, Department of Pathology at the Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, while the MAESTRO study’s principal investigator, Ruud Pijnappel, MD, PhD, Radiologist, University Medical Center, Utrecht, NL, will present the opto-acoustic imaging downclassification and upclassifciation data.
“The Imagio™ breast imaging system represents a significant advance to improve the diagnoses of breast cancer by helping to determine the appropriate classification of breast masses,” said Thomas Stavros, MD and Medical Director of SENO Medical. “The presentation of the histological data will be of particular interest to the oncology community as it will identify a correlation between the opto-acoustic imaging findings and histologic grade of the breast masses.”
“We believe the new data from the MAESTRO study will provide additional clinical evidence to validate our Imagio™opto-acoustic breast imaging system and allow radiologists to make more precise and accurate diagnoses when assessing suspicious breast masses in patients,” said Tom Umbel, CEO of Seno Medical Instruments.
Seno Medical Instruments expects to announce the final results from the MAESTRO study in early 2017. Results from the PIONEER study – the company’s U.S. trial of more than 2,000 patients — are expected to be announced in the second half of 2017.
About Seno Medical Instruments, Inc.
Seno Medical Instruments, Inc. is a San Antonio, Texas-based medical imaging company committed to the development and commercialization of a new modality in cancer diagnosis: opto-acoustic imaging. Seno’s Imagio™ breast imaging system fuses opto-acoustic technology with ultrasound to generate functional and anatomical images of the breast. The opto-acoustic images provide a unique color map in and around suspicious breast masses while the ultrasound provides a traditional anatomic image. Through the appearance or absence of the two hallmark indicators of cancer – angiogenesis and deoxygenation – Seno believes that Imagio™ images will be a more effective tool to help radiologists confirm or rule out malignancy than current diagnostic imaging modalities – without exposing patients to potentially harmful ionizing radiation (x-rays) or contrast agents. Seno’s platform technology may also address other disease applications in organs other than the breast, as well as assessing other breast problems, such as early response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy or hormonal treatments of breast cancer. To learn more about Seno’s opto-acoustic imaging technology and applications, visit http://www.SenoMedical.com.
About the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium
The San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium is an international symposium directed primarily towards academic and private physicians and researchers involved in breast cancer in medical, surgical, gynecologic, and radiation oncology, as well as other appropriate health care professionals. Approximately 7,500 attendees from more than 90 countries are expected to attend.
About Breast Cancer
According to the American Cancer Society, an estimated 246,660 new cases of invasive breast cancer, along with 61,000 new cases of non-invasive (in situ) breast cancer, will be diagnosed in U.S. women in 2016. Additionally, there are over 1.6 million biopsies performed annually and recent reported data noted an 81% “false positive” rate of biopsy procedures – the portion of biopsies that do not lead to breast cancer surgery. An estimated 40,450 women in the U.S. are expected to die in 2016 from breast cancer. Only lung cancer accounts for more cancer deaths in women.
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1 J Womens Health, September 2014, Vol. 23:S1,
2 An Actuarial Analysis of Breast Cancer Screening and Follow-on Diagnostics in a Commercially Insured
3 Population.(2014).Millman, Inc., NY. http://www.milliman.com/uploadedFiles/insight/2014/actuarial-analysis-breast-cancer-screening.pdf
4 U.S. Breast Cancer Statistics | Breastcancer.org. (2016). Breastcancer.org. http://www.breastcancer.org/symptoms/understand_bc/statistics
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Company Plans to Deliver First Imagio™ Opto-Acoustic (OA) Breast Imaging Systems to Select Markets in Europe in Early 2017
September 23, 2016New Interim Results Support Imagio™ Opto-acoustic (OA) Breast Imaging System’s
Potential to Reduce Negative Biopsies
SAN ANTONIO, Sept. 24, 2016 — Seno Medical Instruments, Inc. (Seno), the company pioneering the development of opto-acoustic technology as a tool to improve the process of diagnosing breast cancer, announced today interim results from the company’s multicenter, European MAESTRO post-market surveillance and clinical follow-up study. The results demonstrate the potential of its Imagio™ opto-acoustic (OA) breast imaging system to provide physicians with vital information needed to determine whether or not a suspicious mass is cancerous, with the goal of reducing the rate of negative biopsies. The data were presented at a clinical symposium at the Annual Scientific Meeting of the European Society of Breast Imaging (EUSOBI), the second largest conference in the world dedicated to breast cancer imaging, on September 24, 2016 in Paris.
“The interim results from MAESTRO add to the growing body of clinical evidence showing that the Imagio™ opto-acoustic diagnostic tool increases physicians’ confidence when differentiating and classifying malignant and benign breast tissue,” said the study’s principal investigator Ruud Pijnappel, MD, PhD, Radiologist, University Medical Center, Utrecht, NL, who presented the interim analysis. “The improved accuracy that is possible with this technology could help women avoid painful biopsy procedures that sometimes follow false-positive diagnoses.”
There are over 1.6 million biopsies performed annually[1] and recent reported data noted an 81% “false positive” rate of biopsy procedures – the portion of biopsies that do not lead to breast cancer surgery.[2] Seno’s Imagio™ breast imaging system, which received its CE Mark in 2014, has the potential to reduce negative biopsies by 43%. Seno Medical is targeting their PMA submission for the Imagio™ system to the U.S Food and Drug Administration by the end of 2016.
MAESTRO, a controlled, multi-center, observational, post-market surveillance and clinical follow-up study, was designed to assess the diagnostic value (specificity and sensitivity) of Opto-Acoustics to conventional diagnostic ultrasound (CDU) in suspicious masses classified as BI-RADS 4a and 4b. Investigators first performed CDU to reach a diagnosis and decision to biopsy followed by an Imagio™ OA examination. Two hundred female subjects with undiagnosed suspicious masses enrolled in the study.
The interim analysis of 78 subjects found that following the use of Imagio™ system, radiologists downgraded BI-RADS categories of the internal ultrasound control-classified BI-RADS 4a masses to BI-RADS 3 or 2 in 75% of cases, and BI-RADS 4b masses to either BI-RADS 3 or 2 in 37.5% of cases. The interim results also showed that Imagio™ OA also increased specificity to over 43%, with no significant loss in sensitivity. Importantly, clinicians were able to reduce the rate of false-positive diagnoses by 20% for the last 48 subjects evaluated in the study.
“The interim results of the MAESTRO study are promising and could help physicians reliably and safely assess suspicious masses to deliver optimal treatment for each patient,” said Tom Umbel, CEO of Seno Medical Instruments. “We look forward to the delivery of the first Imagio™ OA/US systems in the Netherlands, UK and Germany early next year.”
Final results from the MAESTRO study are expected to be announced in early 2017. Enrollment for a U.S. trial of more than 2,000 patients has been completed and results will be announced in the latter half of 2017.
Seno’s Imagio™ system co-registers and fuses opto-acoustics, a technology based on “light-in and sound-out,” with diagnostic ultrasound – (OA/US). The opto-acoustic images provide a unique blood map in and around suspicious breast masses. Cancerous tumors grow relatively quickly and require significant amounts of blood and oxygen, so a network of blood vessels grows around cancerous masses. Imagio™ OA/US breast imaging system provides real-time images of these networks and a map of relative oxygen-rich or oxygen-depleted blood. Unlike other functional fusion technologies, Imagio™ o uses no x-rays (ionizing radiation) or injectable contrast agents or radio-isotopes to obtain its information, thereby reducing the patient’s exposure to any potentially harmful aspects of imaging.
About Seno Medical Instruments, Inc.
Seno Medical Instruments, Inc. is a San Antonio, Texas-based medical imaging company committed to the development and commercialization of a new modality in cancer diagnosis: opto-acoustic imaging. Seno’s Imagio™ breast imaging system fuses opto-acoustic technology with ultrasound to generate functional and anatomical images of the breast. The opto-acoustic images provide a unique color map in and around suspicious breast masses while the ultrasound provides a traditional anatomic image. Through the appearance or absence of the two hallmark indicators of cancer – angiogenesis and deoxygenation – Seno believes that Imagio™ images will be a more effective tool to help radiologists confirm or rule out malignancy than current diagnostic imaging modalities – without exposing patients to potentially harmful ionizing radiation (x-rays) or contrast agents. Seno’s platform technology may also address other disease applications in organs other than the breast, as well as assessing other breast problems, such as early response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy or hormonal treatments of breast cancer. To learn more about Seno’s opto-acoustic imaging technology and applications, visit www.SenoMedical.com
About EUSOBI Annual Scientific Meeting
The EUSOBI Annual Scientific Meeting consists of plenary lectures, workshops, symposia, poster sessions and technical exhibitions. The conference attracted renowned international speakers who shared their latest information and perspectives on emerging technologies in the breast cancer imaging space.
About Breast Cancer
According to the American Cancer Society, an estimated 246,660 new cases of invasive breast cancer, along with 61,000 new cases of non-invasive (in situ) breast cancer, will be diagnosed in U.S. women in 2016. An estimated 40,450 women in the U.S. are expected to die in 2016 from breast cancer. Only lung cancer accounts for more cancer deaths in women.[3]
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[1] J Womens Health, September 2014, Vol. 23:S1,
[2] An Actuarial Analysis of Breast Cancer Screening and Follow-on Diagnostics in a Commercially Insured Population.(2014).Millman, Inc., NY. http://www.milliman.com/uploadedFiles/insight/2014/actuarial-analysis-breast-cancer-screening.pdf
[3] U.S. Breast Cancer Statistics | Breastcancer.org. (2016). Breastcancer.org. http://www.breastcancer.org/symptoms/understand_bc/statistics
Seno Medical Instruments Appoints Eric Davis as Chief Financial Officer
August 07, 2016SAN ANTONIO, August, 8 2016 – Seno Medical Instruments, Inc., the leader in improving the process of diagnosing breast cancer through the development of an opto-acoustic (OA) imaging device, today announced the appointment of Eric Davis as Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Davis previously served as the Chief Financial Officer and Corporate Treasurer at CeloNova BioSciences, Inc. Mr. Davis brings more than 20 years of financial and operational leadership with extensive domestic and international experiences.
“Eric is an accomplished financial executive with significant accounting and operational proficiencies, and will be an exceptional addition to our team,” said Tom Umbel, CEO of Seno Medical. “Eric brings global business and healthcare finance and accounting experience, which is invaluable in our preparation to launch our products and services in Europe next year.”
During his tenure at CeloNova, a medical device manufacturing company in San Antonio, Mr. Davis was responsible for global finance/accounting, treasury and investor relations in 58 different countries. Prior to that, Mr. Davis was the CFO and Operating Officer at Genesis Networks Enterprises, LLC where he led finance and accounting operations of a $1 billion network integrations and supply chain management company. He has extensive experience in securing investments, improving EBITDA, and implementing quality processes to improve margins. Mr. Davis has his Masters of Science in Finance from Madison University and a BS in Business Administration in Management from University of Tulsa.
“It’s truly an exciting opportunity to join an innovative company like Seno Medical, especially at this juncture in their product life cycle,” said Mr. Davis. “The commitment by this passionate team and the company’s novel technology to improve cancer diagnosis non-invasively and without additional ionizing radiation, make it an exciting time to join such a dynamic organization.”
The Imagio® OA breast imaging system was designed to facilitate the identification of the two functional hallmarks of cancer: the presence of abnormal blood vessels (tumor angiogenesis) and the relative reduction in oxygen content of blood that occurs in cancer compared to benign masses and normal tissues. The technology used by the Imagio system is non-invasive and does not require patient exposure to contrast agents, ionizing radiation (x-ray) or radio-isotopes, which are required for other modalities that are capable of functional imaging, including magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) or positron emission tomography (PET).
Seno Medical Instruments Appoints Tammy Garcia as SVP of Sales & Marketing
July 31, 2016SAN ANTONIO, August 1 , 2016 – Seno Medical Instruments, Inc., the leader in improving the process of diagnosing breast cancer through the development of an opto-acoustic (OA) imaging device, today announced the appointment of Tammy Garcia as Senior Vice President of Sales & Marketing. Ms. Garcia previously served as the General Manager, Breast Imaging for GE Healthcare. Ms. Garcia brings more than 25 years of commercial and marketing leadership in medical devices and diagnostic imaging with a significant part of her passion and career focused on women’s health and improving cancer detection.
“Tammy’s track record of success in commercializing new technologies will be invaluable as we move closer to bringing the Imagio™ breast imaging system to market,” said Tom Umbel, CEO of Seno Medical. “We are very excited for Tammy to join our company as we prepare to launch our products in Europe early in 2017.”
During her 13-year tenure at GE Healthcare, Ms. Garcia held several leadership roles where she established commercial teams focused on double-digit growth in Orthopedics and Breast Imaging. Additionally, Ms. Garcia led the sales and marketing efforts in the launches of disruptive technologies with MAKO Surgical, an orthopedic robotic device and implant company, and InSightec, a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) guided focused ultrasound non-invasive surgical therapy company. Ms. Garcia has an MBA from University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ.
“I am thrilled to be joining the Seno Medical family–the creators of the revolutionary Imagio™ breast imaging system,” said Ms. Garcia. “The Imagio™ opto-acoustic technology fuses functional and anatomical information real time, with the ultimate goal of improving the accuracy of cancer diagnosis non-invasively. This novel technology has the potential to give clinicians another tool in their arsenal to analyze a breast lesion, co-registering the functional/metabolic information with sonographic images. We believe this will provide the radiologist with more confidence to rule out malignancy without exposing patients to additional radiation. I can’t wait to further expand this technology in Europe and eventually introduce this technology to patients and clinicians in the United States.”
The Imagio™ OA breast imaging system was designed to facilitate the identification of the two functional hallmarks of cancer: the presence of abnormal blood vessels (tumor angiogenesis) and the relative reduction in oxygen content of blood that occurs in cancer compared to benign masses and normal tissues. The technology used by the Imagio™ system is non-invasive and does not require patient exposure to contrast agents, ionizing radiation (x-ray) or radio-isotopes, which are required for other modalities that are capable of functional imaging, including MRI or positron emission tomography (PET).
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