Northeast Georgia Medical Center’s Imaging Center in Braselton has introduced new technology that doctors say is better equipped to detect breast cancer than traditional mammograms. Though the exam only takes a few seconds longer than a traditional mammogram, the three-dimensional technology is proven to detect 41-percent more invasive breast cancers than traditional mammograms. “Traditional mammograms give radiologists a flat, two-dimensional representation of the breast,” said Julie Presley, MD, of Gainesville Radiology Group and medical director of Women’s Imaging at NGMC. “The new technology creates a 3-D image using many layers of the breast, so fine details are more visible and no longer hidden by the tissue above or below.