Conveners
Session 11: Clinical application III
- Jorge Camacho (Spanish National Research Council (CSIC))
- Gursharan Sandhu (Delphinus Medical Technologies, Inc.)
Frank Wolfram
(Lung Cancer Centre SRH Waldklinikum Gera)
11/3/17, 3:00 PM
Main Track
Oral
During USCT examination, tissue morphology, as well as acoustic properties such as speed of sound are extracted. Data based upon malignant tissue is limited, so is its reliability as a prognostic factor indicating a malignant or benign nature. It’s hard to obtain tumour tissue because of their pathological use for staging. Therefore, this work will present a simple method of acoustic...
Jeffrey Bamber
(Institute of Cancer Research)
11/3/17, 3:20 PM
Main Track
Oral
Softvue® (Delphinus Inc.) ultrasound tomography (UST) provides images of sound speed (SS), attenuation coefficient (AC), a combination of SS and AC called stiffness, and relative reflectivity. We have compared volume-averaged SS (VASS) with MRI volume-averaged water versus fat, to quantify breast density (O’Flynn et al., 2017). Here, clinical reproducibility is assessed, stiffness compared...
Hartmut Gemmeke
(KIT-IPE)
11/3/17, 3:40 PM
Main Track
Oral
The first clinical studies with our current prototype, 3D USCT II, enabled us to identify the necessary improvements for transition of the method to clinical practice. The main goals are to improve the contrast of reflection tomography, the resolution of transmission tomography, and to optimize imaged volume of the breast. Furthermore, the fabrication of the transducer arrays needs to be...
