Title :
Implementation of a system using reflective tomographic reconstruction for breast cancer detection
Author :
Stitt, J.P. ; Tutwiler, Rick L.
Author_Institution :
Appl. Res. Lab., Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA, USA
Abstract :
The following describes the implementation of a system for ultrasonic mammography. The system employs adaptive imaging and processing techniques to produce high-resolution breast tissues sonograms. The time-domain imaging technique provides quantitative maps of intrinsic acoustic tissue properties using conventional pulse-echo transducers and clinical scanning system. The increased image resolution and quantitative maps provide improve diagnostics tools compared with conventional B-scan images.
Keywords :
acoustic tomography; biomedical transducers; biomedical ultrasonics; cancer; image reconstruction; image resolution; mammography; medical image processing; time-domain analysis; tumours; ultrasonic transducers; acoustic tissue properties; adaptive imaging; adaptive processing; breast cancer detection; clinical scanning system; diagnostics tools; high-resolution breast tissues sonograms; image resolution; pulse-echo transducers; quantitative map; reflective tomographic reconstruction; time-domain imaging; ultrasonic mammography; Acoustic imaging; Acoustic pulses; Acoustic signal detection; Breast cancer; Cancer detection; High-resolution imaging; Image reconstruction; Mammography; Tomography; Ultrasonic imaging; Breast Cancer Detection; Refelctivity Tomography; Ultrasound Tomography;
Conference_Titel :
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2004. IEMBS '04. 26th Annual International Conference of the IEEE
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8439-3
DOI :
10.1109/IEMBS.2004.1403418
