Scanning Microwave Induced Acoustic Tomography

Abstract

Since the previous report in 2002, we have published five peer-reviewed journal articles and delivered 12 invited talks. For the invited plenary talk given at UK, all travel related expenses were covered by the conference host. The combination of ultrasound and microwave has provided us a unique opportunity for early-cancer imaging with high resolution and high contrast. A good imaging modality should have both high contrast and high spatial resolution. Our imaging technology combines synergistically radiofrequency waves and ultrasonic waves, where the former provides high contrast and the latter provides high spatial resolution. Only non-ionizing radiation is used. No painful breast compression is' required. In addition, our images are free of speckle artifacts, which are prevalent in conventional ultrasound images. Our ultimate goal is to detect early breast cancer.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2003
Accession Number
ADA419552

Entities

People

  • Lihong V. Wang

Organizations

  • Texas Engineering Experiment Station

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acoustic Properties
  • Acoustic Waves
  • Acoustics
  • Bandwidth
  • Breast Cancer
  • Detectors
  • Diagnostic Imaging
  • Diffraction
  • Electromagnetic Radiation
  • Electronic Mail
  • Frequency Bands
  • Photoacoustic Tomography
  • Radio Frequency
  • Repetition Rate
  • Three Dimensional
  • Two Dimensional
  • Ultrasounds

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Academic Conference Management
  • Medical Imaging.