Mammography Systems
The “Giotto” Image generation of Mammography is manufactured by Internazionale Medico Scientifica of Italy. IMS is a dedicated mammography manufacturer. It is all they do. They have been in business for 40 years. The business began with general x-ray and was transformed into mammography as a specialty eleven years ago with the invention of the tilting circular gantry concept. Since then the growth of the Company has expanded throughout the world, even though it is relatively new to the U.S. market. IMS has sold over 1600 of the latest generation “Giotto Image” Mammography Systems through their international network of distributors. Of those 1600 System 600 of them are Combination Mammography / Prone / Upright Stereotactic Systems.
Giotto "Image"

“Giotto Image” is truly the only mammography system on the market that breaks the mold of the old style mammography units that are physically demanding for the technologist and uncomfortable for the patient. “Giotto Image” is the only system that offers the following benefits:
Tilting Gantry
Gravity Assisted Positioning
Face to Face Positioning Capabilities
Less Physical Demands on the Technologist
Relaxed Breast Tissue Allowing More Tissue on the Film
Patient Comfort Due To Relaxed Breast Tissue
Greater and more Comfortable Compression due to relaxation benefit
Better Patient Experience due to Face to Face Contact
Easier Positioning by Technologist due to ability to see
More cost effective
Giotto Stereo Biopsy

“Giotto Image Stereo” is the only “dedicated mammography and stereo” system combined. The only system that gives you the control and the choice of what you want to do: Stereo or Mammography. There is no costly dedicated room sitting unused waiting for a stereo procedure. With “Giotto Image Stereo” you can be doing mammography with the same equipment in the same room, until you need it for stereo. In minutes it converts to a fully capable Prone Stereo System or Upright Stereo System saving many thousands of dollars annually and providing capability of doing “every” patient with your “Giotto Image Stereo”.
Patient with suspicious lesion are commonly referred for Prone Stereo Biopsy. It is less invasive than surgical biopsy and can be done in a clinic setting. Currently, those facilities, that offer prone procedures, must have a costly dedicated room where their stereo equipments sits unusable until there is a stereo procedure needed.
This is not the case with “Giotto Image Stereo”. Because it is a full mammography system and well as a stereo system, it can be used all the time. Because of the dual capability of prone and upright stereo it saves the cost of adding a separate upright system.
IMS has a pending PMA on their second generation Amorphous Selenium Full Field Digital Mammography System, with the same multi-functional capabilities of the “Giotto Image” analog system. There are over 300 Full Field Digital Systems installed in Europe, China, Japan, Indonesia, Mexico and the Middle-East.