Breast cancer is one of the common types of cancer among women. In India, many women suffer from the life threatening disease, which is more prevalent among women aged over 40 years.
Breast cancer is a malignant tumor that starts from cells of the breast.
An appropriate treatment can be administered if breast cancer is detected in its early stages. Doctors prescribe mammography screening for every woman aged over 40 years to detect breast cancer.
However, Dr. Vashist at Batra Hospital says that breast cancer is nowadays found in women at young age. He prescribe routine mammography test for women.
Dr. G.P. Vashist, Director of Radiology and Imaging at Batra Hospital, said, "Recently, the trend is that the breast cancer is developing in younger patients. The causes of developing in younger patients may be the lifestyle factors besides the other factors like strong family history, genetic predisposition and sometimes if you are exposed to radiation at an early stage for chest problems."
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Fujifilm has recently installed digital mammography machine with 3D imaging technology at Batra Hospital and Medical Research Centre in New Delhi.
The user-friendly mammography machine is called "Amulet Innovality".
It is equipped with features like special mood lighting to make patient comfortable to get mammography done. It has tilt puddle technology (sweet puddle) that makes uniform compression over the breast and auto decompression.
The digital display stand shows angle, force in newtons and tissue thickness.
The tomosynthesis technique with 50 micron resolution reconstructs tomographic images to easily identify lesions which might be difficult to visualise in routine mammography because of the presence of overlapping breast structures.
Chander Shekhar Sibal, Executive Vice President, Medical Division, Fujifilm India Private Limited, said, "This digital mammography machine has the highest resolution in the industry, which is 50 micron resolution. So 50 micron, you can understand is a split of a millimeter. You can see the hair, even that kind of structure or the calcification comes. It can detect those kind of structures in the initial stages. It has lot of advantages to the patient actually. It is very soothing for the patient. It has a Sweet Puddle. Whenever the breast is compressed, it will automatically take the shape of the breast. So lots of soothing features are there! There is a lighting, which will give dim lighting. So it is very friendly for the patient, very friendly for the technologists who use it and very high resolution for the doctor."
Fujifilm has been receiving orders for digital mammography machine from various hospitals across India.
Tata Memorial Hospital in Mumbai and Indira Gandhi Medical College in Shimla have already placed their orders for the machine costing over $300,000.
Fujifilm India Pvt. Ltd. is also planning to start manufacturing medical devices and machines in India to cater to the large market.
Dr. Vashist said, "Fujifilm is doing lot of innovations and they are putting lot of money in their R&D and we hope to benefit from their new technology and their upgrades and we hope that we will also get more equipment with highest possible technologies so that it will benefit our patients and improve our medical diagnosis."
In Thailand, with the setting up of Industrial Estates, many industrial units are coming up. They include metal, petroleum, food and automotive industry.
The huge amount of water is required for Industrial use, which is distributed through the water pipeline.
East Water Company manages water distribution to the important economic zone at the east coast of Thailand.
It is the first most complete water grid in ASEAN, the total length of the water pipeline is over 390 kilometers.
The raw water is provided from the reservoir by the electrical power pump system.
Wutichai Pituklerdkul of Ebara Thailand Limited, said, "This is the one of the pumping station of the East Water, that EBARA supplies for the all of the pumps inside this pumping station. East Water supplies more than 300 million cubic meter per year of the raw water, supplied to the industrial area in Thailand."
Japanese pump manufacture, EBARA supplies water pumps to the pumping station for over 20 years, supporting the sustainable water management that grows in accordance with the country's economy.
Pituklerdkul further said, "The system has high pressure in the long pipeline. One of the important point is how to avoid the Water Hammer."
The water pipe is filled with the water that flows continuously.
When the speed of the water flow changes suddenly at pump start-up, manipulation of valves, and especially at the sudden stop due to power failure, it results in a severe change in the water pressure.
This phenomenon is called water hammer.
When the water hammer phenomenon occurs, it causes damages in piping and valves.
The Water hammer countermeasure is essential, especially in such case that is distributing water over long distances for nearly 400km.
Pituklerdkul added, "We have so many technologies to avoid water hammer. For this pumping station, we use the Air Chamber to protect and reduce the Water Hammer effect. Not only providing the pump, but we also provide the engineering and pumping technologies to many customers in Thailand."
Water management is necessary to the industrial development in Thailand and rest of the world.
