Title :
Breast imaging with ultrasound tomography: Initial results with SoftVue
Author :
Duric, Neb ; Littrup, Peter ; Roy, Olivier ; Schmidt, Signe ; Cuiping Li ; Bey-Knight, Lisa ; Xiaoyang Chen
Author_Institution :
Delphinus Med. Technol. Inc., Plymouth, MI, USA
Abstract :
The purpose of this paper is to describe the technical and clinical performance of SoftVue, a breast imaging device based on the principles of ultrasound tomography. We report on initial results from data acquired from 30 participants in a recently undertaken clinical study. Initial results suggest that SoftVue can accurately image the full range of breast anatomy, including both benign lesions and cancer. Ongoing research is focused on assessing SoftVue´s ability to differentiate benign masses from cancer.
Keywords :
acoustic tomography; biomedical equipment; biomedical ultrasonics; cancer; data acquisition; mammography; medical image processing; tumours; ultrasonic devices; ultrasonic imaging; SoftVue; benign lesions; benign masses; breast anatomy; breast imaging device; cancer; clinical performance; data acquisition; technical performance; ultrasound tomography; Breast; Cancer; Educational institutions; Prototypes; Tomography; Ultrasonic imaging; breast; imaging; tomography; ultrasound;
Conference_Titel :
Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS), 2013 IEEE International
Conference_Location :
Prague
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-5684-8
DOI :
10.1109/ULTSYM.2013.0099