Hologic is releasing in the U.S. its Brevera breast biopsy system that works to improve the accuracy of biopsies while reducing procedural time. It features so-called Cor-Lumina imaging technology that feeds slices taken by a slicer at the tip of the biopsy needle directly into a multi-section cartridge.

After excising each slice, the physician can review it under a microscopy imaging system built into the Breva. This allows the physician to confirm that at least one of the slices looks like a cross-section of a lesion. The entire cartridge is then sent to the pathology lab for a closer and more comprehensive analysis.

What’s impressive is that a biopsy slice taken at the source is never touched or manipulated by a human being, automatically moving through a tube into the cartridge and then onward to the lab.