Title :
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
fDate :
Sept. 29 2014-Oct. 3 2014
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;
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
DOI :
10.1109/ICEEE.2014.6978318
