Title :
Development of breast anthropomorphic phantoms for combined PET-ultrasound elastography imaging
Author :
Dang, Jun ; Lasaygues, Philippe ; Zhang, Dachun ; Tavernier, Stefaan ; Felix, Nicolas ; Frisch, Benjamin ; Mensah, Serge ; Wan, Mingxi
Author_Institution :
Vrije Univ. Brussel, Brussels, Belgium
fDate :
Oct. 24 2009-Nov. 1 2009
Abstract :
A phantom has been developed for PET/US breast imaging. The phantom reproduces the acoustic and elastic characteristics of human breast tissue, and the different tissues in the phantom can be labeled with 18F-FDG. The phantom was imaged with whole body PET/CT and also with the shear wave elastography with Supersonic Imagine Aixplorer system. We also test the phantom for other elastography methods such as static elastography. A 6D magnetic positioning system is used for image matching and fusion. This phantom is developed for ClearPEM/US multimodal breast imaging.
Keywords :
biological tissues; biomedical ultrasonics; cancer; image fusion; image matching; medical image processing; phantoms; positron emission tomography; 6D magnetic positioning system; PET-ultrasound elastography imaging; Supersonic Imagine Aixplorer system; breast anthropomorphic phantoms; image fusion; image matching; multimodal breast imaging; shear wave elastography; Acoustic imaging; Anthropomorphism; Attenuation; Breast; Cancer detection; Elasticity; Imaging phantoms; Positron emission tomography; Ultrasonic imaging; Whole-body PET;
Conference_Titel :
Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record (NSS/MIC), 2009 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Orlando, FL
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-3961-4
Electronic_ISBN :
1095-7863
DOI :
10.1109/NSSMIC.2009.5401670
