The University of Wisconsin-Madison has recognized Acceleware, a developer of high-performance computing solutions, for making solid progress in investigating new ways to detect and treat early-stage breast cancer.

Susan Hagness, PhD, and her multi-disciplinary team of scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are investigating the use of ultra short pulses of low-power electromagnetic waves to produce three-dimensional diagnostic images of the breast, and higher-power waves to focus energy at the site of a tumor to treat the cancer. The imaging technology has a potential to detect cancer through harmless scans of the breast and provide diagnostic information that is complementary to x-ray mammography.

Acceleware's hardware acceleration platform utilizes the power of NVIDIA GPU computing solutions to dramatically increase the speed of the sophisticated computations required by breast imaging technology, thus decreasing time to treatment for people with positive diagnosis of breast cancer.

The World Health Organization estimates that 1.2 million women globally were diagnosed with breast cancer in 2006.

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