Breast cancer early detection via tracking of skin back-scattered secondary speckle patterns

Aviya Bennett, Talia Sirkis, Yevgeny Beiderman, Sergey Agdarov, Yafim Beiderman, Zeev Zalevsky

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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 languageEnglish
Title of host publicationNanoscale Imaging, Sensing, and Actuation for Biomedical Applications XV
EditorsDan V. Nicolau, Alexander N. Cartwright, Dror Fixler
PublisherSPIE
ISBN (Electronic)9781510614970
DOIs
StatePublished - 2018
EventNanoscale Imaging, Sensing, and Actuation for Biomedical Applications XV 2018 - San Francisco, United States
Duration: 30 Jan 201831 Jan 2018

Publication series

NameProgress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE
Volume10506

Conference

ConferenceNanoscale Imaging, Sensing, and Actuation for Biomedical Applications XV 2018
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CitySan Francisco
Period30/01/1831/01/18

Keywords

  • Medical optics instrumentation
  • Speckle
  • Tissue characterization

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
  • Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
  • Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging
  • Biomaterials

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