Abstract
Breast cancer has become a major cause of death among women. The lifetime risk of a woman developing this disease has been established as one in eight. The most useful way to reduce breast cancer death is to treat the disease as early as possible. The existing methods of early diagnostics of breast cancer are mainly based on screening mammography or Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) periodically conducted at medical facilities. In this paper the authors proposing a new approach for simple breast cancer detection. It is based on skin stimulation by sound waves, illuminating it by laser beam and tracking the reflected secondary speckle patterns. As first approach, plastic balls of different sizes were placed under the skin of chicken breast and detected by the proposed method.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Nanoscale Imaging, Sensing, and Actuation for Biomedical Applications XV |
Editors | Dan V. Nicolau, Alexander N. Cartwright, Dror Fixler |
Publisher | SPIE |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9781510614970 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 2018 |
Event | Nanoscale Imaging, Sensing, and Actuation for Biomedical Applications XV 2018 - San Francisco, United States Duration: 30 Jan 2018 → 31 Jan 2018 |
Publication series
Name | Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE |
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Volume | 10506 |
ISSN (Print) | 1605-7422 |
Conference
Conference | Nanoscale Imaging, Sensing, and Actuation for Biomedical Applications XV 2018 |
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Country/Territory | United States |
City | San Francisco |
Period | 30/01/18 → 31/01/18 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2018 SPIE.
Keywords
- Medical optics instrumentation
- Speckle
- Tissue characterization