Title :
The Value-Exploration of the Clinical Breast Diagnosis by Using Thermal Tomography
Author :
Zhang, Hao ; Li, Kai-Yang ; Sun, Sheng-Rong ; Wan, Ying-Wen ; Yao, Xiao-li ; Zhang, Xian-Lin
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Phys., Wuhan Univ., Wuhan
Abstract :
In this paper, a thermal tomography method, which can deduce the temperature distribution of the inner heat source from the surface thermal map, is applied to the clinical breast diagnosis. With the comparison to the conventional mammography and ultrasound imaging, the clinical value of thermal tomography on breast diagnosis is discussed. Moreover, with the help of the infrared thermal imaging, the different rules of the temperature response on normal or cancerous mammary tissue by activating the sympathetic nervous system with a cold stimulus on hands is studied preliminarily.
Keywords :
biological tissues; biothermics; infrared imaging; mammography; patient diagnosis; temperature distribution; tomography; ultrasonic imaging; clinical breast diagnosis; heat source; infrared thermal imaging; mammary tissue; mammography; surface thermal map; sympathetic nervous system; temperature distribution; temperature response; thermal tomography method; ultrasound imaging; Biological system modeling; Breast; Cancer; Heat transfer; Infrared imaging; Optical imaging; Surface morphology; Temperature distribution; Tomography; Ultrasonic imaging; Breast cancer; Clinical diagnosis; Infrared thermal imaging; Thermal tomography;
Conference_Titel :
Natural Computation, 2008. ICNC '08. Fourth International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Jinan
Print_ISBN :
978-0-7695-3304-9
DOI :
10.1109/ICNC.2008.150