1999 headquarters cape town south africa key people christopher l. kit vaughan founder and ceo products digital mammography website http www.caperay.com caperay medical pty ltd is a privately held company based in cape town south africa that develops manufactures and supplies medical imaging equipment for the diagnosis of breast cancer . 1 the company was originally formed as african medical imaging ami in 1999 as a joint venture between de beers and the university of cape town . 2 funding for the company came first from the innovation fund of south africa which is now part of the technology innovation agency followed by a grant from the national institutes of health in the usa and finally an investment by the venture capital unit of the industrial development corporation of south africa . 3 kit vaughan is founder and ceo having facilitated the formation of caperay as a spin out company . 4 caperay has developed a digital mammography system known as the pantoscanner which brings a dual modality approach to breast cancer screening combining automated breast ultrasound and low dose digital x rays to provide complementary information on the composition of breast tissue . the pantoscanner which also incorporates digital tomosynthesis combines the attributes of each modality to improve the sensitivity and specificity for detecting breast cancer . 5 references edit caperay company profile at south african electrotechnical export council ray of light from new imaging spinoff caperay gets venture funding innovative caperay to revolutionise breast cancer detection caperay debuts mammo unit at eusobi auntminnie europe external links edit caperay retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title caperay & oldid 647221313 categories companies based in cape townmedical imagingmedical equipment manufacturers navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 15 february 2015 at 09 05 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view