Corporate ProfileDilon Diagnostics®, located in Newport News, Va., designs, manufactures and commercializes innovative medical imaging solutions worldwide based on cooperative research and development with the Department of Energy’s Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility and leading medical universities.Dilon’s cornerstone product, the Dilon 6800®, is a high-resolution, compact gamma camera. This compact camera has 510(k) clearance as a general purpose gamma camera and is ideal for imaging small body parts, such as the breast, thyroid, parathyroid and spot bone scans. The Dilon 6800 has been optimized to perform BSGI, a molecular breast imaging procedure that aids in the effective management of suspicious and difficult-to-interpret breast cases. It is also used in general nuclear medicine applications. After more than 10 years of development and clinical implementation, the Dilon 6800 Gamma Camera has been instrumental in finding hard-to-detect lesions that other imaging modalities may miss, such as lobular carcinoma and Ductal Carcinoma In-situ (DCIS). Many leading medical centers around the world are now offering BSGI to their patients, including: Cornell University Medical Center, New York and The George Washington University Medical Center, Washington, D.C. In addition, the technology is being used in other countries, such as England, Sweden, France and Korea. Dilon also offers accessories, products and services to complement molecular imaging, including:
With a wide range of molecular imaging tools and services, Dilon helps deliver more accurate cancer diagnoses. |
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