Realistic novel breast and breast cancer phantoms for the study of imaging and therapy ultrasound

Author

Arce, F. ; Leija, L. ; Vera, Alonzo ; Cepeda, M. ; Guerrero, G.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., CINVESTAV-IPN, Mexico City, Mexico

fYear

2014

fDate

Sept. 29 2014-Oct. 3 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

This paper describes the procedure to make a realistic and novel breast and breast cancer phantoms in order to mimic acoustic and geometric properties of the woman breast. Comparing the propagation speed of sound in our phantoms with others papers, we achieved 96.34 % of similarity in breast phantoms and 96.99 % of similarity in breast cancer phantoms by using accessible and cheap materials; furthermore, the phantom is easy to prepare. Images taken with a commercial equipment are presented.

Keywords

biomedical ultrasonics; cancer; phantoms; tumours; ultrasonic imaging; ultrasonic propagation; ultrasonic therapy; acoustic properties; breast cancer phantoms; commercial equipment; geometric properties; realistic novel breast phantoms; sound propagation speed; therapy ultrasound imaging; Breast cancer; Imaging phantoms; Materials; Phantoms; Ultrasonic imaging; breast; breast cancer; phantom; ultrasound;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electrical Engineering, Computing Science and Automatic Control (CCE), 2014 11th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Campeche

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-6228-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICEEE.2014.6978318

Filename

6978318