Alternative breast imaging four model - based approaches

Medical imaging has been transformed over the past 30 years by the advent of computerized tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and various advances in x-ray and ultrasonic techniques. An enabling force behind this progress has been the (so far) exponentially increasing power of computers, which has made it practical to explore fundamentally new approaches. In particular, what our group terms “model-based” modalities— which rely on iterative, convergent numerical modeling to produce an image from data that is related nonlinearly to a target volume—have become increasingly feasible. This book explores our research on four such modalities, particularly with regard to imaging of the breast: (1) MR elastography (MRE), (2) electrical impedance spectroscopy (EIS), (3) microwave imaging
spectroscopy (MIS), and (4) near infrared spectroscopic imaging (NIS).

Từ khóa: ultrasonic techniques, infrared spectroscopic, Alternative breast imaging, kỹ thuật siêu âm, quang phổ hồng ngoại, chụp cộng hưởng từ