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By David Worrell

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Olivia Cheng, CEO of Aurora Imaging Technologies, is passionateabout fighting breast cancer. But she can't help save lives ifnobody buys her product, a breast-specific MRI machine. So when ahospital or clinic says "no, thank you" to the $1.5million price tag, Cheng, 50, comes back with an offer theycan't refuse: Aurora will provide the machine at no cost andeven pay rent for the space to use it. Then, Aurora pockets theinsurance payment for each use of the machine--about $1,000 perpatient--for the following five to seven years.

Although selling one machine means a one-time profit of over$700,000, the same machine placed in a hospital or clinic cangenerate $15,000 a day--enough to pay for the machine and itsmanagement, plus put $2 million a year toward Aurora's bottomline. "This is the best-kept secret in medicine today,"says Cheng. She expects Aurora to double 2005 sales, growing toover $20 million in 2006.

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