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

fYear

2013

fDate

21-25 July 2013

Firstpage

382

Lastpage

385

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS), 2013 IEEE International

Conference_Location

Prague

ISSN

1948-5719

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-5684-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ULTSYM.2013.0099

Filename

6725078