Breast ultrasound tomography with two parallel transducer arrays

Lianjie Huang; Junseob Shin; Ting Chen; Youzuo Lin; Kai Gao; Miranda Intrator; Kenneth Hanson

doi:10.1117/12.2216531

22 March 2016 Breast ultrasound tomography with two parallel transducer arrays

Lianjie Huang, Junseob Shin, Ting Chen, Youzuo Lin, Kai Gao, Miranda Intrator, Kenneth Hanson

Proceedings Volume 9783, Medical Imaging 2016: Physics of Medical Imaging; 97830C (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2216531
Event: SPIE Medical Imaging, 2016, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

Breast ultrasound tomography is an emerging imaging modality to reconstruct the sound speed, density, and ultrasound attenuation of the breast in addition to ultrasound reflection/beamforming images for breast cancer detection and characterization. We recently designed and manufactured a new synthetic-aperture breast ultrasound tomography prototype with two parallel transducer arrays consisting of a total of 768 transducer elements. The transducer arrays are translated vertically to scan the breast in a warm water tank from the chest wall/axillary region to the nipple region to acquire ultrasound transmission and reflection data for whole-breast ultrasound tomography imaging. The distance of these two ultrasound transducer arrays is adjustable for scanning breasts with different sizes. We use our breast ultrasound tomography prototype to acquire phantom and in vivo patient ultrasound data to study its feasibility for breast imaging. We apply our recently developed ultrasound imaging and tomography algorithms to ultrasound data acquired using our breast ultrasound tomography system. Our in vivo patient imaging results demonstrate that our breast ultrasound tomography can detect breast lesions shown on clinical ultrasound and mammographic images.

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Lianjie Huang, Junseob Shin, Ting Chen, Youzuo Lin, Kai Gao, Miranda Intrator, and Kenneth Hanson "Breast ultrasound tomography with two parallel transducer arrays", Proc. SPIE 9783, Medical Imaging 2016: Physics of Medical Imaging, 97830C (22 March 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2216531

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