TY - GEN
T1 - The design and characterization of a digital optical breast cancer imaging system
AU - Flexman, Molly L.
AU - Li, Yang
AU - Bur, Andres M.
AU - Fong, Christopher J.
AU - Masciotti, James M.
AU - Abdi, Rabah Al
AU - Barbour, Randall L.
AU - Hielscher, Andreas H.
N1 - Copyright:
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PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - Optical imaging has the potential to play a major role in breast cancer screening and diagnosis due to its ability to image cancer characteristics such as angiogenesis and hypoxia. A promising approach to evaluate and quantify these characteristics is to perform dynamic imaging studies in which one monitors the hemodynamic response to an external stimulus, such as a valsalva maneuver. It has been shown that the response to such stimuli shows MARKED differences between cancerous and healthy tissues. The fast imaging rates and large dynamic range of digital devices makes them ideal for this type of imaging studies. Here we present a digital optical tomography system designed specifically for dynamic breast imaging. The instrument uses laser diodes at 4 different near-infrared wavelengths with 32 sources and 128 silicon photodiode detectors.
AB - Optical imaging has the potential to play a major role in breast cancer screening and diagnosis due to its ability to image cancer characteristics such as angiogenesis and hypoxia. A promising approach to evaluate and quantify these characteristics is to perform dynamic imaging studies in which one monitors the hemodynamic response to an external stimulus, such as a valsalva maneuver. It has been shown that the response to such stimuli shows MARKED differences between cancerous and healthy tissues. The fast imaging rates and large dynamic range of digital devices makes them ideal for this type of imaging studies. Here we present a digital optical tomography system designed specifically for dynamic breast imaging. The instrument uses laser diodes at 4 different near-infrared wavelengths with 32 sources and 128 silicon photodiode detectors.
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U2 - 10.1109/iembs.2008.4650020
DO - 10.1109/iembs.2008.4650020
M3 - Conference contribution
C2 - 19163523
AN - SCOPUS:61849142276
SN - 9781424418152
T3 - Proceedings of the 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS'08 - "Personalized Healthcare through Technology"
SP - 3735
EP - 3738
BT - Proceedings of the 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS'08
PB - IEEE Computer Society
T2 - 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS'08
Y2 - 20 August 2008 through 25 August 2008
ER -