Breast Cancer: Catch It with Ultrasound
Abstract
Our multi-team group (Los Alamos National Laboratories (LANL) and Children s Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School) aims to develop the next-generation ultrasound (US) technology that combines the biomechanical aspects of cancer progression with advanced 3D image reconstruction. The UNM team will initially create imaging case studies that compare findings of common pathology and normal anatomy of the conventional modalities and US tomography. UNM will use this information for subsequent patients to validate or at least clarify the value of this new US tomography information. UNM will also supply Harvard with biopsy specimens for analysis of tissue structure and mechanics. Standard imaging that UNM will use for comparison with US tomography are magnification mammography, conventional mammography, conventional sonography, contrast enhanced MRI, and breast biopsies. Study participants will be selected after undergoing conventional work-up mammography. Patients will undergo high-resolution US with existing clinical sonography compared images from the US tomography device developed at LANL.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Sep 01, 2011
- Accession Number
- ADA554131
Entities
People
- Francesco Simonetti
- Heather Tobin
- Kenneth Hanson
- Lianjie Huang
- Martin Montoya-zavala
- Michael Williamson
- Philip Heintz
- Robert Rosenberg
- Silva Krause
Organizations
- University of New Mexico