Margin assessment of three-dimensional breast cancer phantoms using terahertz imaging

Tyler Bowman; Alec Walter; Magda El-Shenawee

doi:10.1117/12.2212671

18 March 2016 Margin assessment of three-dimensional breast cancer phantoms using terahertz imaging

Tyler Bowman, Alec Walter, Magda El-Shenawee

Proceedings Volume 9700, Design and Quality for Biomedical Technologies IX; 97000J (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2212671
Event: SPIE BiOS, 2016, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

This work focuses on pulsed terahertz imaging for the application of surgical margin assessment of breast cancer. Various phantom tissue types and orientations are tested here to refine imaging methodology that can detect breast cancer up to 0.5-1.0 mm from the edge of the sample. The depth of the cancer within the sample is estimated using time of flight analysis of the reflected peaks in the pulsed time domain signal. Breast tissue phantoms have been designed to resemble fresh infiltrating ductal carcinoma, fibroglandular tissue, and fatty tissue of the breast to accomplish this work.

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Tyler Bowman, Alec Walter, and Magda El-Shenawee "Margin assessment of three-dimensional breast cancer phantoms using terahertz imaging", Proc. SPIE 9700, Design and Quality for Biomedical Technologies IX, 97000J (18 March 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2212671

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