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Jiang Y, Iuanow E, Malik B, Klock J. A Multireader Multicase (MRMC) Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) Study Evaluating Noninferiority of Quantitative Transmission (QT) Ultrasound to Digital Breast Tomosynthesis (DBT) on Detection and Recall of Breast Lesions. Acad Radiol 2024:S1076-6332(23)00716-X. [PMID: 38290888 DOI: 10.1016/j.acra.2023.12.038] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/16/2023] [Revised: 12/16/2023] [Accepted: 12/26/2023] [Indexed: 02/01/2024]
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RATIONALE AND OBJECTIVES Quantitative transmission (QT) imaging is an emerging volumetric ultrasound modality for women too young for mammography. QT images tissue without overlap seen in mammography, thereby can potentially improve breast mass detection and characterization and noncancer recall. We compared radiologists' interpretation of QT vs digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) with a multireader multicase observer performance study. MATERIALS AND METHODS Study subjects received screening DBT and QT scans in HIPAA-compliant, institutional review board-approved prospective case-collection studies at four clinical sites. Twenty-four Mammography Quality Standards Act-qualified radiologists interpreted 177 cases (66 with cancer, atypia, or solid mass and 111 normal or with nonsolid benign abnormality), first QT, then 2 weeks later DBT synthesized 2D-views. Readers reported up to three findings per case and for each finding a recall or no recall decision and confidence of that decision. The study hypothesis was area under receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC) of QT was noninferior to DBT. Sensitivity and specificity were also compared. RESULTS AUC of QT (0.746 ± 0.028, mean ± SD) was noninferior to DBT (0.700 ± 0.028) for AUC difference margin of -0.05 (P < .05). AUC difference was 0.046 ± 0.028 (95% CI: [-0.008, 0.101]). Sensitivity was 70.6 ± 7.2% for QT and 85.2 ± 6.4% for DBT, specificity was 60.1 ± 12.3% vs 37.2 ± 11.0%, and both differences were statistically significant. Of a total of 21 cases of cysts, readers recommended recall, on average, in 1.1 ± 1.4 cases with QT, but not with DBT, and 10.6 ± 2.2 cases with DBT, but not with QT. CONCLUSION QT can be a potential alternative to mammography for breast cancer screening of women too young to undergo mammography.
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- Yulei Jiang
- Department of Radiology, the University of Chicago, 5841 South Maryland Ave, MC2026, Chicago, IL 60637.
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Robins TC, Cueto C, Cudeiro J, Bates O, Agudo OC, Strong G, Guasch L, Warner M, Tang MX. Dual-Probe Transcranial Full-Waveform Inversion: A Brain Phantom Feasibility Study. Ultrasound Med Biol 2023; 49:2302-2315. [PMID: 37474432 DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2023.06.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/05/2022] [Revised: 05/29/2023] [Accepted: 06/02/2023] [Indexed: 07/22/2023]
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OBJECTIVE Despite being a low-cost, portable and safe medical imaging technique, transcranial ultrasound imaging is not used widely in adults because of the severe degradation and distortion of signals caused by the skull. Full-waveform inversion (FWI) has recently been found to have potential as an effective method for transcranial ultrasound tomography to obtain high-quality, subwavelength-resolution acoustic models of the brain using low-frequency ultrasound data. In this study is the first demonstration of this method in recovering a high-resolution 2-D reconstruction of a brain and skull ultrasound imaging phantom using experimentally acquired data. METHODS A 2:5 scale brain phantom encased within a 3-D-printed skull-mimicking layer was created to simulate a clinical transcranial imaging target. To obtain tomographic ultrasound data on the brain and skull phantom, a tomographic ultrasound acquisition system was designed and implemented using commercially available low-frequency cardiac probes. FWI reconstructions of the brain and skull phantom were performed using the acquired tomographic data and were compared with corresponding synthetic reconstructions. This comparison was used to evaluate the feasibility of the proposed imaging system when employing different transducer array configurations. RESULTS We demonstrate the successful FWI reconstruction of the brain phantom within the skull mimic from experimentally acquired tomographic ultrasound data. To mitigate the effects of the skull-mimicking material, a reflection-matching algorithm was applied to model the morphology of the skull layer prior to performing the inversion. CONCLUSION The findings of this study provide a promising step toward the clinical use of FWI for transcranial ultrasound imaging in adults.
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- Thomas Caradoc Robins
- Department of Bioengineering, Faculty of Engineering, Imperial College London, London, UK.
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- Department of Bioengineering, Faculty of Engineering, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- Department of Earth Science and Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- Department of Bioengineering, Faculty of Engineering, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- Department of Earth Science and Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- Department of Earth Science and Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- Department of Earth Science and Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- Department of Earth Science and Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- Department of Bioengineering, Faculty of Engineering, Imperial College London, London, UK
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Pattyn A, Yan Y, Mehrmohammadi M. Wavelength-dependent error minimization for quantitative spectroscopic photoacoustic tomography with a ring-array system. Z Med Phys 2023; 33:444-451. [PMID: 37225605 PMCID: PMC10517392 DOI: 10.1016/j.zemedi.2023.04.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/07/2022] [Revised: 03/31/2023] [Accepted: 04/06/2023] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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PURPOSE Photoacoustic tomography (PAT) is a non-invasive and high-resolution imaging technique that can provide functional and molecular information from the optical properties of pathological tissues, such as cancer. Spectroscopic PAT (sPAT) is capable of supplying information such as oxygen saturation (sO2), which is an important biological indicator for diseases such as cancer. However, the wavelength dependent nature of sPAT makes it challenging to provide accurate quantitative measurements of tissue oxygenation beyond shallow depths. We have previously reported the utility of combined ultrasound tomography and PAT to achieve optical and acoustic compensated PAT images at a single wavelength and for enhanced PAT images at larger depths. In this work we further explore the utility of the optical and acoustic compensation PAT algorithm to minimize the wavelength dependency in sPAT by showcasing improvements in spectral unmixing. MATERIALS AND METHODS Two optically and acoustically characterized heterogenous phantoms were manufactured to test the ability of the system and developed algorithm to minimize the wavelength-dependence driven error in sPAT spectral unmixing. The PA inclusions within each phantom were composed of a mixture of two sulfate dyes, copper sulfate (CuSO4) and nickel sulfate (NiSO4), with known optical spectra. Improvements between uncompensated and optically and acoustically compensated PAT (OAcPAT) were quantified as the relative percent error between the measured results and the ground truth. RESULTS The results of our phantom studies demonstrate that OAcPAT can significantly improve the accuracy of sPAT measurements in a heterogenous medium and especially at larger inclusions depths which can reach to up to 12% improvement in measurement errors. This significant improvement can play a vital role in reliability of future in-vivo biomarker quantifications. CONCLUSIONS Utilizing UST for model-based optical and acoustic compensation of PAT images was proposed by our group previously. In this work, we further demonstrated the efficacy of the developed algorithm in sPAT by minimizing the error caused by the tissue's optical heterogeneity on improving spectral unmixing, which is a major limiting factor in reliability of sPAT measurements. Such synergistic combination of UST and PAT provides a window of opportunity to achieve bias-free quantitative sPAT measurements, which plays an important role in future pre-clinical and clinical utility of PAT.
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- Alexander Pattyn
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA
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- Department of Imaging Sciences, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, USA
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- Department of Imaging Sciences, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, USA; Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA; Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA; Wilmot Cancer Institute, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, USA.
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Yuan Y, Zhao Y, Zhang N, Xiao Y, Jin J, Feng N, Shen Y. Full-Waveform Inversion for Breast Ultrasound Tomography Using Line-Shape Modeled Elements. Ultrasound Med Biol 2023; 49:1070-1081. [PMID: 36737306 DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2022.12.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/26/2022] [Revised: 12/06/2022] [Accepted: 12/10/2022] [Indexed: 05/11/2023]
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OBJECTIVE The objective of the work described here was to incorporate the spatial shapes of the transducer elements into the framework of the full-waveform inversion. METHODS An element is treated as its cross-section in the 2-D imaging plane, that is, a line segment. The elements are not simply modeled as a set of point sources on their surface to avoid staircasing artifacts. By use of the Fourier collocation method, an element is spatially represented as the discrete convolution between its spatial distribution and a band-limited delta function. The excitation pulses on the emitters and recorded signals on the receivers are then weighted based on the discrete convolution results. Digital and physical experiments are implemented to validate the method. DISCUSSION It is meaningful to model the shapes of the elements if their spatial sizes are similar to or larger than the acoustic wavelengths. It should, however, be noted that because this article focuses on 2-D imaging, the inter-plane effects are not considered. CONCLUSION The approach helps reduce the root mean square errors and increase the structural similarity of the reconstructed images. It also helps to improve the stability of convergence and to accelerate the convergence speed.
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- Yu Yuan
- Control Theory and Engineering, School of Astronautics, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China
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- Control Theory and Engineering, School of Astronautics, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China.
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- Control Theory and Engineering, School of Astronautics, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China
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- Control Theory and Engineering, School of Astronautics, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China
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- Control Theory and Engineering, School of Astronautics, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China
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- Control Theory and Engineering, School of Astronautics, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China
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- Shenzhen Engineering Lab for Medical Intelligent Wireless Ultrasonic Imaging Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China
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Klock J. Clinical Importance of 3D Volography in Breast Imaging. Adv Exp Med Biol 2023; 1403:239-249. [PMID: 37495921 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-21987-0_11] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 07/28/2023]
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The clinical applications of the volography algorithm and concomitant refraction-corrected reflection algorithm as described in Chap. 10 are discussed here. Comparisons with an H&E stained image, discussion of glandular tissue visibility, related biomarkers, segmentation accuracy and capabilities, microcalcification and cyst detection and analysis, and various VGA and clinical studies show the unique capabilities of the method. The accuracy of the fibroglandular segmentation and its relevance to breast density in imaging is mentioned. The compatibility with artificial intelligence (AI) is shown and clinical results discussed, concluding that low-frequency 3D ultrasound volography is a powerful 3D ultrasound imaging technique for microanatomic and quantitative features of the breast with good potential for AI utilization to provide an imaging technique that will quantitatively improve clinical performance.
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Ruiter NV, Zapf M, Hopp T, Gemmeke H. Ultrasound Tomography. Adv Exp Med Biol 2023; 1403:171-200. [PMID: 37495919 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-21987-0_9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 07/28/2023]
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Ultrasound tomography (USCT) is a promising imaging modality, mainly aiming at early diagnosis of breast cancer. It provides three-dimensional, reproducible images of higher quality than conventional ultrasound methods and additionally offers quantitative information on tissue properties. This chapter provides an introduction to the background and history of USCT, followed by an overview of image reconstruction algorithms and system design. It concludes with a discussion of current and future applications as well as limitations and their potential solutions.
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- Nicole V Ruiter
- Institute for Data Processing and Electronics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany.
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- Institute for Data Processing and Electronics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Institute for Data Processing and Electronics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Institute for Data Processing and Electronics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
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Cudeiro-Blanco J, Cueto C, Bates O, Strong G, Robins T, Toulemonde M, Warner M, Tang MX, Agudo OC, Guasch L. Design and Construction of a Low-Frequency Ultrasound Acquisition Device for 2-D Brain Imaging Using Full-Waveform Inversion. Ultrasound Med Biol 2022; 48:1995-2008. [PMID: 35902276 DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2022.05.023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/21/2022] [Revised: 04/28/2022] [Accepted: 05/17/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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The main techniques used to image the brain and obtain structural data are magnetic resonance imaging and X-ray computed tomography. These techniques produce images with high spatial resolution, but with the disadvantage of requiring very large equipment with special installation needs. In addition, X-ray tomography uses ionizing radiation, which limits their use. Ultrasound imaging is a safe technology that is delivered using compact and mobile devices. However, conventional ultrasound reconstruction techniques have failed to obtain images of the brain because of, fundamentally, the presence of the skull and the distortion that it produces on ultrasound. Recent studies have indicated that full-waveform inversion, a computational technique originally from Earth science, has the potential to generate accurate 3-D images of the brain. This technology can overcome the limitations of conventional ultrasound imaging, but a prototype for transcranial applications does not yet exist. Here, we investigate different designs of an annular array of ultrasound transducers to optimize the number of elements and rotations needed to conduct transcranial imaging with full-waveform inversion. This device uses small-diameter, low-frequency transducers that readily propagate ultrasound through the skull with good signal-to-noise ratios. It also incorporates the use of rotations to produce a high-density coverage of the target and acquire redundant traces that are beneficial for full-waveform inversion. We have built a ring of 40 transducers to illustrate that this design is capable of reconstructing images of the brain, retrieving its anatomy and acoustic properties with millimeter resolution. Laboratory results reveal the ability of this device to successfully image a 2.5-D brain- and skull-mimicking phantom using full-waveform inversion. To our knowledge, this is the first prototype ever used for transcranial-like imaging. The importance of these findings and their implications for the design of a 3-D reconstruction system with possible clinical applications are discussed.
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- Javier Cudeiro-Blanco
- Department of Earth Science and Engineering, Imperial College London, London, UK; Department of Bioengineering, Imperial College London, London, UK.
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- Department of Bioengineering, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- Department of Bioengineering, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- Department of Earth Science and Engineering, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- Department of Bioengineering, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- Department of Earth Science and Engineering, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- Department of Bioengineering, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- Department of Earth Science and Engineering, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- Department of Earth Science and Engineering, Imperial College London, London, UK
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Zhang Y, Wang L. Adaptive dual-speed ultrasound and photoacoustic computed tomography. Photoacoustics 2022; 27:100380. [PMID: 35722271 PMCID: PMC9198371 DOI: 10.1016/j.pacs.2022.100380] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/03/2022] [Revised: 06/06/2022] [Accepted: 06/07/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Full-ring dual-modal ultrasound and photoacoustic computed tomography has unique advantages of nearly isotropic spatial resolution, complementary contrast, deep penetration, and full-view detection. However, the imaging quality may be deteriorated by the inaccurate sound speed estimation. Automatic determining and compensation for sound speed has been a long-standing problem in image reconstruction. Here, we present new adaptive dual-speed ultrasound and photoacoustic computed tomography (ADS-USPACT) to address this challenge. The system features full-view coverage (360°), high-speed dual-modal imaging (10-Hz), automated dual sound speed correction, and synergistic high imaging quality. To correct the sound speed, we develop a two-compartment method that can automatically segment the sample boundary and search for the optimal sound speed based on the rich ultrasonic pulse-echo signals. The method does not require the operator's intervention. We validate this technique in numerical simulation, phantom study, and in vivo experiments. The ADS-USPACT represents significant progress in dual-modal imaging.
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- Yachao Zhang
- City University of Hong Kong, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR, China
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- City University of Hong Kong, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR, China
- City University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen Research Institute, Shenzhen, China
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Pattyn A, Mumm Z, Alijabbari N, Duric N, Anastasio MA, Mehrmohammadi M. Model-based optical and acoustical compensation for photoacoustic tomography of heterogeneous mediums. Photoacoustics 2021; 23:100275. [PMID: 34094852 PMCID: PMC8167150 DOI: 10.1016/j.pacs.2021.100275] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/07/2020] [Revised: 05/14/2021] [Accepted: 05/17/2021] [Indexed: 05/11/2023]
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Photoacoustic tomography (PAT) is a non-invasive, high-resolution imaging modality, capable of providing functional and molecular information of various pathologies, such as cancer. One limitation of PAT is the depth and wavelength dependent optical fluence, which results in reduced PA signal amplitude from deeper tissue regions. These factors can therefore introduce errors into quantitative measurements such as oxygen saturation (sO2) or the localization and concentration of various chromophores. The variation in the speed-of-sound between different tissues can also lead to distortions in object location and shape. Compensating for these effects allows PAT to be used more quantitatively. We have developed a proof-of-concept algorithm capable of compensating for the heterogeneity in speed-of-sound and depth dependent optical fluence. Speed-of-sound correction was done by using a straight ray-based algorithm for calculating the family of iso-time-of-flight contours between the transducers and every pixel in the imaging grid, while fluence compensation was done by utilizing the graphics processing unit (GPU) accelerated software MCXCL for Monte Carlo modeling of optical fluence variation. This algorithm was tested on a polyvinyl chloride plastisol (PVCP) phantom, which contained cyst mimics and blood inclusions to test the algorithm under relatively heterogeneous conditions. Our results indicate that our PAT algorithm can compensate for the speed-of-sound variation and depth dependent fluence effects within a heterogeneous phantom. The results of this study will pave the way for further development and evaluation of the proposed method in more complex in-vitro and ex-vivo phantoms, as well as compensating for the wavelength-dependent optical fluence in spectroscopic PAT.
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- Alexander Pattyn
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA
- Corresponding author.
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA
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- Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute, Detroit, MI, USA
- Department of Imaging Sciences, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA
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- Department of Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA
- Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute, Detroit, MI, USA
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Stähli P, Kuriakose M, Frenz M, Jaeger M. Improved forward model for quantitative pulse-echo speed-of-sound imaging. Ultrasonics 2020; 108:106168. [PMID: 32502892 DOI: 10.1016/j.ultras.2020.106168] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/24/2019] [Revised: 02/24/2020] [Accepted: 04/24/2020] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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Computed ultrasound tomography in echo mode (CUTE) allows determining the spatial distribution of speed-of-sound (SoS) inside tissue using handheld pulse-echo ultrasound (US). This technique is based on measuring the changing phase of beamformed echoes obtained under varying transmit (Tx) and/or receive (Rx) steering angles. The SoS is reconstructed by inverting a forward model describing how the spatial distribution of SoS is related to the spatial distribution of the echo phase shift. Thanks to the straight-ray approximation, this forward model is linear and can be inverted in real-time when implemented in a state-of-the art system. Here we demonstrate that the forward model must contain two features that were not taken into account so far: (a) the phase shift must be detected between pairs of Tx and Rx angles that are centred around a set of common mid-angles, and (b) it must account for an additional phase shift induced by the offset of the reconstructed position of echoes. In a phantom study mimicking hepatic and cancer imaging, we show that both features are required to accurately predict echo phase shift among different phantom geometries, and that substantially improved quantitative SoS images are obtained compared to the model that has been used so far. The importance of the new model is corroborated by a preliminary volunteer result.
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- Patrick Stähli
- Institute of Applied Physics, University of Bern, Sidlerstrasse 5, 3012 Bern, Switzerland
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- Institute of Applied Physics, University of Bern, Sidlerstrasse 5, 3012 Bern, Switzerland
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- Institute of Applied Physics, University of Bern, Sidlerstrasse 5, 3012 Bern, Switzerland.
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- Institute of Applied Physics, University of Bern, Sidlerstrasse 5, 3012 Bern, Switzerland
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Huy TQ, Cuc NT, Nguyen VD, Long TT, Tan TD. Tomographic density imaging using modified DF-DBIM approach. Biomed Eng Lett 2019; 9:449-465. [PMID: 31799014 DOI: 10.1007/s13534-019-00129-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/05/2019] [Revised: 08/07/2019] [Accepted: 08/12/2019] [Indexed: 10/26/2022] Open
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Ultrasonic computed tomography based on back scattering theory is the most powerful and accurate tool in ultrasound based imaging approaches because it is capable of providing quantitative information about the imaged target and detects very small targets. The duple-frequency distorted Born iterative method (DF-DBIM), which uses density information along with sound contrast for imaging, is a promising approach for imaging targets at the level of biological tissues. With two frequencies f1 (low) and f2 (high) through N f 1 and N f 2 iterations respectively, this method is used to estimate target density along with sound contrast. The implications of duple-frequency fusion for the image reconstruction quality of density information along with sound contrast based ultrasound tomography have been analyzed in this paper. In this paper, we concentrate on the selection of parameters that is supposed to be the best to improve the reconstruction quality of ultrasound tomography. When there are restraints imposed on simulated scenarios to have control of the computational cost, the iteration number N f 1 is determined resulting in giving the best performance. The DF-DBIM is only effective if there are a moderate number of iterations, transmitters and receivers. In case that the number of transducers is either too large or too small, a result of reconstruction which is better than that of the single frequency approach is not produced by the implementation of DF-DBIM. A fixed sum N iter of N f 1 and N f 2 was given, the investigation of simulation results shows that the best value of N f 1 is N iter 2 - 1 . The error, when applying this way of choosing the parameters, will be normalized with the reduction of 56.11%, compared to use single frequency as used in the conventional DBIM method. The target density along with sound contrast is used to image targets in this paper. It is a fact that low-frequency offers fine convergence, and high-frequency offers fine spatial resolution. Wherefore, this technique can effectively expand DBIM's applicability to the problem of biological tissue reconstruction. Thanks to the usage of empirical data, this work will be further developed prior to its application in reality.
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- Tran Quang Huy
- 1Faculty of Physics, Hanoi Pedagogical University 2, Nguyen Van Linh Street, Xuan Hoa Ward, Phuc Yen Town, Vinh Phuc Province Vietnam
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- 2Hanoi Medical University, 1 Ton That Tung, Dong Da, Hanoi, Vietnam
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- 3NTT Hi-Tech Institute, Nguyen Tat Thanh University, 300A Nguyen Tat Thanh Street, Ward 13, District 4, Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam
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- School of Electrical Engineering, VNU International University, HoChiMinh, Quarter 6, Linh Trung Ward, Thu Duc District, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
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- Faculty of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Phenikaa University, Hanoi, 12116 Vietnam.,6Phenikaa Research and Technology Institute (PRATI), A&A Green Phoenix Group JSC, No. 167 Hoang Ngan, Trung Hoa, Cau Giay, Hanoi, 11313 Vietnam
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Chen CI, Chen TB, Lu NH, Du WC, Liang CY, Liu KI, Hsu SY, Lin LW, Huang YH. Classification for liver ultrasound tomography by posterior attenuation correction with a phantom study. Proc Inst Mech Eng H 2019; 233:1100-1112. [PMID: 31441386 DOI: 10.1177/0954411919871123] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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The B-mode ultrasound usually contains scattering speckle noise which reduces the detailed resolution of the target and is regarded as an intrinsic noise that interferes with diagnostic precision. The aim of this study was to classify hepatic steatosis through applying attenuation correction with a phantom to reduce speckle noise in liver ultrasound tomography in patients. This retrospective study applied three randomized groups signifying different liver statuses. A total of 114 patients' effective liver ultrasound images-30 normal, 44 fatty, and 40 cancerous-were included. The proposed depth attenuation correction method was first applied to images. Three regions of interest were manually drawn on the images. Next, five feature values for the regions of interest were calculated. Finally, the hybrid method of logistic regression and support vector machine was employed to classify the ultrasound images with 10-fold cross-validation. The accuracy, kappa statistic, and mean absolute error of the proposed hybrid method were 87.5%, 0.812, and 0.119, respectively, which were higher than those of the logistic regression method-75.0%, 0.548, and 0.280-or those of the support vector machine method-75.7%, 0.637, and 0.293-respectively. Therefore, the hybrid method has been proven to be more accurate and have better performance and less error than either single method. The hybrid method provided acceptable accuracy of classification in three liver ultrasound image groups after depth attenuation correction. In the future, the deep learning approaches may be considered for the application in classifying liver ultrasound images.
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- Chih-I Chen
- Department of Information Engineering, I-Shou University, Kaohsiung.,Division of Colon & Rectal Surgery, Department of Surgery, E-Da Hospital, I-Shou University, Kaohsiung
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- Department of Medical Imaging and Radiological Sciences, I-Shou University, Kaohsiung
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- Department of Medical Imaging and Radiological Sciences, I-Shou University, Kaohsiung.,Department of Radiology, E-Da Hospital, I-Shou University, Kaohsiung
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- Department of Information Engineering, I-Shou University, Kaohsiung
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- Department of Information Engineering, I-Shou University, Kaohsiung.,Department of Medical Imaging and Radiological Sciences, I-Shou University, Kaohsiung.,Department of Emergency Medicine, E-Da Hospital, I-Shou University, Kaohsiung
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- Department of Radiology, E-Da Cancer Hospital, I-Shou University, Kaohsiung
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- Department of Information Engineering, I-Shou University, Kaohsiung
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- The School of Chinese Medicine for Post-Baccalaureate, I-Shou University, Kaohsiung
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- Department of Medical Imaging and Radiological Sciences, I-Shou University, Kaohsiung
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Huy TQ, Tue HH, Long TT, Duc-Tan T. Deterministic compressive sampling for high-quality image reconstruction of ultrasound tomography. BMC Med Imaging 2017; 17:34. [PMID: 28545406 PMCID: PMC5445364 DOI: 10.1186/s12880-017-0206-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/23/2016] [Accepted: 05/09/2017] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
Abstract
Background A well-known diagnostic imaging modality, termed ultrasound tomography, was quickly developed for the detection of very small tumors whose sizes are smaller than the wavelength of the incident pressure wave without ionizing radiation, compared to the current gold-standard X-ray mammography. Based on inverse scattering technique, ultrasound tomography uses some material properties such as sound contrast or attenuation to detect small targets. The Distorted Born Iterative Method (DBIM) based on first-order Born approximation is an efficient diffraction tomography approach. One of the challenges for a high quality reconstruction is to obtain many measurements from the number of transmitters and receivers. Given the fact that biomedical images are often sparse, the compressed sensing (CS) technique could be therefore effectively applied to ultrasound tomography by reducing the number of transmitters and receivers, while maintaining a high quality of image reconstruction. Methods There are currently several work on CS that dispose randomly distributed locations for the measurement system. However, this random configuration is relatively difficult to implement in practice. Instead of it, we should adopt a methodology that helps determine the locations of measurement devices in a deterministic way. For this, we develop the novel DCS-DBIM algorithm that is highly applicable in practice. Inspired of the exploitation of the deterministic compressed sensing technique (DCS) introduced by the authors few years ago with the image reconstruction process implemented using l1 regularization. Results Simulation results of the proposed approach have demonstrated its high performance, with the normalized error approximately 90% reduced, compared to the conventional approach, this new approach can save half of number of measurements and only uses two iterations. Universal image quality index is also evaluated in order to prove the efficiency of the proposed approach. Conclusions Numerical simulation results indicate that CS and DCS techniques offer equivalent image reconstruction quality with simpler practical implementation. It would be a very promising approach in practical applications of modern biomedical imaging technology.
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Affiliation(s)
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- School of Electrical Engineering, VNU International University, HoChiMinh, Vietnam.
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- School of Electrical Engineering, VNU International University, HoChiMinh, Vietnam
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- Faculty of Electronics & Telecommunications, VNU University of Engineering & Technology, Hanoi, Vietnam
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Sak M, Duric N, Littrup P, Bey-Knight L, Ali H, Vallieres P, Sherman ME, Gierach GL. Using Speed of Sound Imaging to Characterize Breast Density. Ultrasound Med Biol 2017; 43:91-103. [PMID: 27692872 PMCID: PMC5761326 DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2016.08.021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/02/2016] [Revised: 06/07/2016] [Accepted: 08/16/2016] [Indexed: 05/09/2023]
Abstract
A population of 165 women with negative mammographic screens also received an ultrasound tomography (UST) examination at the Karmanos Cancer Institute in Detroit, MI. Standard statistical techniques were employed to measure the associations between the various mammographic- and UST-related density measures and various participant characteristics such as age, weight and height. The mammographic percent density (MPD) was found to have similar strength associations with UST mean sound speed (Spearman coefficient, rs = 0.722, p < 0.001) and UST median sound speed (rs = 0.737, p < 0.001). Both were stronger than the associations between MPD with two separate measures of UST percent density, a k-means (rs = 0.568, p < 0.001) or a threshold (rs = 0.715, p < 0.001) measure. Segmentation of the UST sound speed images into dense and non-dense volumes showed weak to moderate associations with the mammographically equivalent measures. Relationships were found to be inversely and weakly associated between age and the UST mean sound speed (rs = -0.239, p = 0.002), UST median sound speed (rs = -0.226, p = 0.004) and MPD (rs = -0.204, p = 0.008). Relationships were found to be inversely and moderately associated between body mass index (BMI) and the UST mean sound speed (rs = -0.429, p < 0.001), UST median sound speed (rs = -0.447, p < 0.001) and MPD (rs = -0.489, p < 0.001). The results confirm and strengthen findings presented in previous work indicating that UST sound speed imaging yields viable markers of breast density in a manner consistent with mammography, the current clinical standard. These results lay the groundwork for further studies to assess the role of sound speed imaging in risk prediction.
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Affiliation(s)
- Mark Sak
- Delphinus Medical Technologies, Plymouth, MI, USA.
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- Delphinus Medical Technologies, Plymouth, MI, USA
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- Delphinus Medical Technologies, Plymouth, MI, USA; Brown University, Rhode Island Hospital, Providence, RI, USA
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- Karmanos Cancer Institute, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA
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- Division of Cancer Prevention, National Cancer Institute, Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Metabolic Epidemiology Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD, USA
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Oeri M, Bost W, Tretbar S, Fournelle M. Calibrated Linear Array-Driven Photoacoustic/ Ultrasound Tomography. Ultrasound Med Biol 2016; 42:2697-2707. [PMID: 27523424 DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2016.06.028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/29/2016] [Revised: 05/25/2016] [Accepted: 06/29/2016] [Indexed: 05/07/2023]
Abstract
The anisotropic resolution of linear arrays, tools that are widely used in diagnostics, can be overcome by compounding approaches. We investigated the ability of a recently developed calibration and a novel algorithm to determine the actual radial transducer array distance and its misalignment (tilt) with respect to the center of rotation in a 2-D and 3-D tomographic setup. By increasing the time-of-flight accuracy, we force in-phase summation during the reconstruction. Our setup is composed of a linear transducer and a rotation and translation axis enabling multidimensional imaging in ultrasound and photoacoustic mode. Our approach is validated on phantoms and young mice ex vivo. The results indicate that application of the proposed analytical calibration algorithms prevents image artifacts. The spatial resolution achieved was 160 and 250 μm in photoacoustic mode of 2-D and 3-D tomography, respectively.
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- Milan Oeri
- Fraunhofer Institute for Biomedical Engineering (IBMT), Medical Ultrasound Group, St. Ingbert, Germany.
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- Fraunhofer Institute for Biomedical Engineering (IBMT), Medical Ultrasound Group, St. Ingbert, Germany
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- Fraunhofer Institute for Biomedical Engineering (IBMT), Medical Ultrasound Group, St. Ingbert, Germany
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- Fraunhofer Institute for Biomedical Engineering (IBMT), Medical Ultrasound Group, St. Ingbert, Germany
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Sak M, Duric N, Littrup P, Sherman ME, Gierach GL. Using ultrasound tomography to identify the distributions of density throughout the breast. Proc SPIE Int Soc Opt Eng 2016; 9790. [PMID: 28943704 DOI: 10.1117/12.2217611] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022]
Abstract
Women with high breast density are at increased risk of developing breast cancer. Breast density has usually been defined using mammography as the ratio of fibroglandular tissue to total breast area. Ultrasound tomography (UST) is an emerging modality that can also be used to measure breast density. UST creates tomographic sound speed images of the patient's breast which is useful as sound speed is directly proportional to tissue density. Furthermore, the volumetric and quantitative information contained in the sound speed images can be used to describe the distribution of breast density. The work presented here measures the UST sound speed density distributions of 165 women with negative screening mammography. Frequency distributions of the sound speed voxel information were examined for each patient. In a preliminary analysis, the UST sound speed distributions were averaged across patients and grouped by various patient and density-related factors (e.g., age, body mass index, menopausal status, average mammographic breast density). It was found that differences in the distribution of density could be easily visualized for different patient groupings. Furthermore, findings suggest that the shape of the distributions may be used to identify participants with varying amounts of dense and non-dense tissue.
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Affiliation(s)
- Mark Sak
- Delphinus Medical Technologies, 46701 Commerce Center Dr, Plymouth, MI, 48170
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- Delphinus Medical Technologies, 46701 Commerce Center Dr, Plymouth, MI, 48170
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- Delphinus Medical Technologies, 46701 Commerce Center Dr, Plymouth, MI, 48170.,Brown University, Rhode Island Hospital, 593 Eddy Street, Providence RI, 02903
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- Breast and Gynecologic Cancer Research Group, Division of Cancer Prevention, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Metabolic Epidemiology Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD, USA
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Sak MA, Littrup PJ, Duric N, Mullooly M, Sherman ME, Gierach GL. Current and Future Methods for Measuring Breast Density: A Brief Comparative Review. Breast Cancer Manag 2015; 4:209-221. [PMID: 28943893 PMCID: PMC5609705 DOI: 10.2217/bmt.15.13] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023] Open
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Breast density is one of the strongest predictors of breast cancer risk. Women with the densest breasts are 4 to 6 times more likely to develop cancer compared with those with the lowest densities. Breast density is generally assessed using mammographic imaging; however, this approach has limitations. Magnetic resonance imaging and ultrasound tomography are some alternative imaging modalities that can aid mammography in patient screening and the measurement of breast density. As breast density becomes more commonly discussed, knowledge of the advantages and limitations of breast density as a marker of risk will become more critical. This review article discusses the relationship between breast density and breast cancer risk, lists the benefits and drawbacks of using multiple different imaging modalities to measure density and briefly discusses how breast density will be applied to aid in breast cancer prevention and treatment.
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Affiliation(s)
- Mark A Sak
- Karmanos Cancer Institute, Wayne State University, 4100 John R Street, Detroit MI 48201
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- Delphinus Medical Technologies, 46701 Commerce Center Dr, Plymouth, MI, 48170
- Brown University, Rhode Island Hospital, 593 Eddy Street, Providence RI, 02903
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- Karmanos Cancer Institute, Wayne State University, 4100 John R Street, Detroit MI 48201
- Delphinus Medical Technologies, 46701 Commerce Center Dr, Plymouth, MI, 48170
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- Hormonal and Reproductive Epidemiology Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD, USA
- Cancer Prevention Fellowship Program, Division of Cancer Prevention, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Breast and Gynecologic Cancer Research Group, Division of Cancer Prevention, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Hormonal and Reproductive Epidemiology Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD, USA
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Jaeger M, Held G, Peeters S, Preisser S, Grünig M, Frenz M. Computed ultrasound tomography in echo mode for imaging speed of sound using pulse-echo sonography: proof of principle. Ultrasound Med Biol 2015; 41:235-50. [PMID: 25220274 DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2014.05.019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/05/2014] [Revised: 05/21/2014] [Accepted: 05/23/2014] [Indexed: 05/15/2023]
Abstract
The limitations of diagnostic echo ultrasound have motivated research into novel modalities that complement ultrasound in a multimodal device. One promising candidate is speed of sound imaging, which has been found to reveal structural changes in diseased tissue. Transmission ultrasound tomography shows speed of sound spatially resolved, but is limited to the acoustically transparent breast. We present a novel method by which speed-of-sound imaging is possible using classic pulse-echo equipment, facilitating new clinical applications and the combination with state-of-the art diagnostic ultrasound. Pulse-echo images are reconstructed while scanning the tissue under various angles using transmit beam steering. Differences in average sound speed along different transmit directions are reflected in the local echo phase, which allows a 2-D reconstruction of the sound speed. In the present proof-of-principle study, we describe a contrast resolution of 0.6% of average sound speed and a spatial resolution of 1 mm (laterally) × 3 mm (axially), suitable for diagnostic applications.
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- Michael Jaeger
- Institute of Applied Physics, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
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- Institute of Applied Physics, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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- Institute of Applied Physics, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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- Institute of Applied Physics, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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- Institute of Applied Physics, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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- Institute of Applied Physics, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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Sak M, Duric N, Littrup P, Bey-Knight L, Sherman M, Gierach G, Malyarenko A. Comparison of sound speed measurements on two different ultrasound tomography devices. Proc SPIE Int Soc Opt Eng 2014; 9040:90400S. [PMID: 25309102 PMCID: PMC4188438 DOI: 10.1117/12.2043113] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022]
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Ultrasound tomography (UST) employs sound waves to produce three-dimensional images of breast tissue and precisely measures the sound speed of breast tissue composition. High breast density is a strong breast cancer risk factor and sound speed is directly proportional to breast density. UST provides a quantitative measure of breast density based on three-dimensional imaging without compression, thereby overcoming the shortcomings of many other imaging modalities. The quantitative nature of the UST breast density measures are tied to an external standard, so sound speed measurement in breast tissue should be independent of specific hardware. The work presented here compares breast sound speed measurement obtained with two different UST devices. The Computerized Ultrasound Risk Evaluation (CURE) system located at the Karmanos Cancer Institute in Detroit, Michigan was recently replaced with the SoftVue ultrasound tomographic device. Ongoing clinical trials have used images generated from both sets of hardware, so maintaining consistency in sound speed measurements is important. During an overlap period when both systems were in the same exam room, a total of 12 patients had one or both of their breasts imaged on both systems on the same day. There were 22 sound speed scans analyzed from each system and the average breast sound speeds were compared. Images were either reconstructed using saved raw data (for both CURE and SoftVue) or were created during the image acquisition (saved in DICOM format for SoftVue scans only). The sound speed measurements from each system were strongly and positively correlated with each other. The average difference in sound speed between the two sets of data was on the order of 1-2 m/s and this result was not statistically significant. The only sets of images that showed a statistical difference were the DICOM images created during the SoftVue scan compared to the SoftVue images reconstructed from the raw data. However, the discrepancy between the sound speed values could be easily handled by uniformly increasing the DICOM sound speed by approximately 0.5 m/s. These results suggest that there is no fundamental difference in sound speed measurement for the two systems and support combining data generated with these instruments in future studies.
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Affiliation(s)
- Mark Sak
- Karmanos Cancer Institute, Wayne State University, 4100 John R Street, Detroit MI 48201
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- Karmanos Cancer Institute, Wayne State University, 4100 John R Street, Detroit MI 48201 ; Delphinus Medical Technologies, 46701 Commerce Center Dr, Plymouth, MI, 48170
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- Karmanos Cancer Institute, Wayne State University, 4100 John R Street, Detroit MI 48201 ; Delphinus Medical Technologies, 46701 Commerce Center Dr, Plymouth, MI, 48170
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- Karmanos Cancer Institute, Wayne State University, 4100 John R Street, Detroit MI 48201
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- National Cancer Institute, Division of Cancer Prevention, Breast and Gynecologic Cancer Research Group, 9609 Medical Center Drive, Room 5E334, Bethesda, MD 20892
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- National Cancer Institute, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, Hormonal and Reproductive Epidemiology Branch, 9609 Medical Center Drive, Rm. 7-E108, Bethesda, MD 20892
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- Karmanos Cancer Institute, Wayne State University, 4100 John R Street, Detroit MI 48201
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Sak M, Duric N, Littrup P, Li C, Bey-Knight L, Sherman M, Boyd N, Gierach G. Breast density measurements using ultrasound tomography for patients undergoing tamoxifen treatment. Proc SPIE Int Soc Opt Eng 2013; 8675:86751E. [PMID: 25426270 PMCID: PMC4241344 DOI: 10.1117/12.2007146] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
Abstract
Women with high breast density have an increased risk of developing breast cancer. Women treated with the selective estrogen receptor modulator tamoxifen for estrogen receptor positive breast cancer experience a 50% reduction in risk of contralateral breast cancer and overall reduction of similar magnitude has been identified among high-risk women receiving the drug for prevention. Tamoxifen has been shown to reduce mammographic density, and in the IBIS-1 chemoprevention trial, risk reduction and decline in density were significantly associated. Ultrasound tomography (UST) is an imaging modality that can create tomographic sound speed images of the breast. These sound speed images are useful because breast density is proportional to sound speed. The aim of this work is to examine the relationship between UST-measured breast density and the use of tamoxifen. So far, preliminary results for a small number of patients have been observed and are promising. Correlations between the UST-measured density and mammographic density are strong and positive, while relationships between UST density with some patient specific risk factors behave as expected. Initial results of UST examinations of tamoxifen treated patients show that approximately 45% of the patients have a decrease in density in the contralateral breast after only several months of treatment. The true effect of tamoxifen on UST-measured density cannot yet be fully determined until more data are collected. However, these promising results suggest that UST can be used to reliably assess quantitative changes in breast density over short intervals and therefore suggest that UST may enable rapid assessment of density changes associated with therapeutic and preventative interventions.
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Affiliation(s)
- Mark Sak
- Karmanos Cancer Institute, Wayne State University, 4100 John R Street, Detroit MI 48201
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- Karmanos Cancer Institute, Wayne State University, 4100 John R Street, Detroit MI 48201 ; Delphinus Medical Technologies, 46701 Commerce Center Dr, Plymouth, MI, 48170
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- Karmanos Cancer Institute, Wayne State University, 4100 John R Street, Detroit MI 48201 ; Delphinus Medical Technologies, 46701 Commerce Center Dr, Plymouth, MI, 48170
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- Karmanos Cancer Institute, Wayne State University, 4100 John R Street, Detroit MI 48201 ; Delphinus Medical Technologies, 46701 Commerce Center Dr, Plymouth, MI, 48170
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- Karmanos Cancer Institute, Wayne State University, 4100 John R Street, Detroit MI 48201
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- National Cancer Institute, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, Hormonal and Reproductive Epidemiology Branch, 6120 Executive Blvd, Suite 550, Rockville, MD 20892
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- Princess Margaret Hospital, 610 University Ave., Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5G 2M9
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- National Cancer Institute, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, Hormonal and Reproductive Epidemiology Branch, 6120 Executive Blvd, Suite 550, Rockville, MD 20892
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