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CP/Yahoo! Canada: Ont. Teen’s Breast Cancer Screening System Takes Top Prize at Science Fair

Thanks to Philip
Webb
for this link.

“A Grade 11 student from Ontario has won the top prize at the
world’s largest science fair for developing a new mammogram system
to screen for breast cancer…

“Gervais collected $4,128 [US$3,257/€2577] in prize money
for his prototype medical ultrasound system, which uses Linux
software to model a three-dimensional, high-resolution image from
existing two-dimensional screening equipment…”


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