GE Healthcare has collaborated with Boca Raton Regional Hospital to bring a more comfortable mammography system, Senographe Pristina™ to patients with next-generation 3D digital mammography technology.
“Senographe Pristina offer patients a reinvented mammography experience, one that had not significantly changed for the last 40 years,” said Kathy Schilling, M.D., Medical Director at the Hospital’s Christine E. Lynn Women’s Health & Wellness Institute. “After having a mammogram on Senographe Pristina, women immediately recognize a pleasant difference: it’s a faster and quieter exam with greater comfort and less pain during compression.”
Commenting further, Dr. Schilling noted, “Our goal is for all our baseline patients to have their mammograms with this new technology with the intent that it will help to dismiss any preconceived fears and encourage more compliance with annual screening.”
Senographe Pristina was designed to completely revolutionize the patient experience to make it more comfortable. The gentle, rounded corners of the image detector help reduce patient discomfort under the arms. New, comfortable armrests replace conventional handgrips which may cause tensing of the pectoral muscles, making it hard to properly position the tissue. In addition, the redesigned armrest allows women to gently support their arm during the exam in a relaxed position making the exam more appealing.
