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Biotech / Medical : Caprius(CAPR), Breast MRI(former ANMR/MAMO) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Eliot A who wrote (2264)	12/2/1997 2:33:00 PM
From: luis a. garcia	Respond to of 2615

The competing technologies are many. There is an outfit working on infrared band to image and detect tumors??? don't know if its effective or not. There are digital xrays which come from military applications post cold war ...stuff. To that effect and to meet the new FDA regulations the levels of ionizing radiation were quietly raised by FDA recently not a very wise move. Digital xrays work like film they saturate breasts with some kind of xray energy and capture an image on film or digitize it for a computer to use enhancement techniques on them.. the price of the machine is higher of course and the amount of mutagenics is higher and higher patient risks... etc and forget about surgery they are thinking robotic surgery because noone can handle the prolonged exposure.. I don't like this approach. Not suitable for young girls or women of childbearing ages.. not safe. Sonograms are acoustic and GEMS has developed and refined Sonogram machines quite a bit and how well they work ???? don't know. Don't think they work in every case mostly good for solid tumors that produce good echo's. Xrays are maybe 70% effective (probably less by today's and tomorrow's standards, then sonograms are 33% effective don't know if they have improved any. MRI on the other hand is approaching 99% effective and is safe and should be the ace in the hole for the future radiology practice. In a billion dollar market there is room for MRI to be an important niche and there is room for this stock to appreciate and grow...Also the machine will find other niches in time so they can diversify if they make it that far.... luis

To: Eliot A who wrote (2264)	12/2/1997 9:00:00 PM
From: luis a. garcia	Respond to of 2615

Here is another competing technology one off the press for you Elliot... biz.yahoo.com luis