Development of diagnostic imaging system for regional lymph node micrometastasis with high-frequency ultrasound

Author

Tomita, Noriko ; Horie, Sachiko ; Oosawa, Fuki ; Watanabe, Yukiko ; Chen, Rui ; Ohki, Kosuke ; Morikawa, Hirohide ; Fukumoto, Manabu ; Mori, Shiro ; Kodama, Tetsuya

Author_Institution

Grad. Sch. of Biomed. Eng., Tohoku Univ., Sendai

fYear

2008

fDate

2-5 Nov. 2008

Firstpage

1728

Lastpage

1729

Abstract

It is important of diagnosing not only primary tumors but also metastases accurately. Recently, we have established murine lymph node metastasis model and developed a new method to reconstruct the two- and three-dimensional (2D/3D) vessel structures in the model by using nanobubbles (NBs) and high-frequency ultrasound imaging system. In the present study, we investigated the characteristics of 2D/3D vessel structures in the metastasis model, and compared to normal lymph node. This technique may be useful for early diagnosis of lymph node micrometastasis.

Keywords

biomedical ultrasonics; blood vessels; image reconstruction; tumours; 2D vessel structures reconstruction; 3D vessel structures reconstruction; diagnostic imaging system; high frequency ultrasound; nanobubbles; regional lymph node micrometastasis; tumors; Axilla; Biomedical imaging; Cancer detection; Luminescence; Lymph nodes; Metastasis; Mice; Neoplasms; Shape; Ultrasonic imaging; angiogenesis; diagnosis; high-frequency ultrasound; nanobubble lymph node metastasis;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Ultrasonics Symposium, 2008. IUS 2008. IEEE

Conference_Location

Beijing

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2428-3

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2480-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ULTSYM.2008.0423

Filename

4803581