The Dr. Richard Corbett Diagnostic Imaging Suite is now the name of a unit at Dosher Memorial Hospital following a Dosher Foundation ceremony.

The retired radiologist worked at Dosher Memorial from 1962 to 1988 and “has supported the hospital in general and the imaging department in particular with numerous monetary and other gifts over the years,” a news release stated.

More than 70 guests attended the event, including residents of Brunswick, New Hanover and Bladen counties. Tom Ryan, former hospital administrator from the 1970s, was one of several speakers who called Corbett a “mentor,” the release stated.

Guests at the event toured Dosher’s newest imaging technology, a 3-D mammography suite. The hospital recently added digital tomosynthesis for the breast, or three-dimensional mammography.

“Two-dimensional mammograms are good for identifying calcification in breast tissue, while 3-D provides radiologists a clearer view of overlapping tissue and improves detection of invasive cancers. Our mammography unit does both simultaneously,” Connie Pitman, Dosher Diagnostic Imaging director, said in a news release.

The same “high-tech equipment as used at larger hospitals” will be used as Dosher Memorial.

New Hanover Regional Medical Center started offering advanced 3-D mammography technology this fall at five NHRMC Health & Diagnostic. Delaney Radiologists, a Wilmington-based imaging group serving southeastern North Carolina, also has added the service.