Elasto-mammography: Theory, Algorithm, and Phantom Study

<p>A new imaging modality framework, called elasto-mammography, is proposed to generate the elastograms of breast tissues based on conventional X-ray mammography. The displacement information is extracted from mammography projections before and after breast compression. Incorporating the displ...

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Published: Wiley 2006-01-01
Series:International Journal of Biomedical Imaging
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description <p>A new imaging modality framework, called elasto-mammography, is proposed to generate the elastograms of breast tissues based on conventional X-ray mammography. The displacement information is extracted from mammography projections before and after breast compression. Incorporating the displacement measurement, an elastography reconstruction algorithm is specifically developed to estimate the elastic moduli of heterogeneous breast tissues. Case studies with numerical breast phantoms are conducted to demonstrate the capability of the proposed elasto-mammography. Effects of noise with measurement, geometric mismatch, and elastic contrast ratio are evaluated in the numerical simulations. It is shown that the proposed methodology is stable and robust for characterization of the elastic moduli of breast tissues from the projective displacement measurement.</p>
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spelling doaj-art-a32eef8afb1c436bb838154fb1edf39d2025-02-03T06:07:58ZengWileyInternational Journal of Biomedical Imaging1687-41882006-01-012006Elasto-mammography: Theory, Algorithm, and Phantom Study<p>A new imaging modality framework, called elasto-mammography, is proposed to generate the elastograms of breast tissues based on conventional X-ray mammography. The displacement information is extracted from mammography projections before and after breast compression. Incorporating the displacement measurement, an elastography reconstruction algorithm is specifically developed to estimate the elastic moduli of heterogeneous breast tissues. Case studies with numerical breast phantoms are conducted to demonstrate the capability of the proposed elasto-mammography. Effects of noise with measurement, geometric mismatch, and elastic contrast ratio are evaluated in the numerical simulations. It is shown that the proposed methodology is stable and robust for characterization of the elastic moduli of breast tissues from the projective displacement measurement.</p>http://www.hindawi.com/GetArticle.aspx?doi=10.1155/IJBI/2006/53050
spellingShingle Elasto-mammography: Theory, Algorithm, and Phantom Study
International Journal of Biomedical Imaging
title Elasto-mammography: Theory, Algorithm, and Phantom Study
title_full Elasto-mammography: Theory, Algorithm, and Phantom Study
title_fullStr Elasto-mammography: Theory, Algorithm, and Phantom Study
title_full_unstemmed Elasto-mammography: Theory, Algorithm, and Phantom Study
title_short Elasto-mammography: Theory, Algorithm, and Phantom Study
title_sort elasto mammography theory algorithm and phantom study
url http://www.hindawi.com/GetArticle.aspx?doi=10.1155/IJBI/2006/53050