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Diagnosis of Micro-Calcified Lesions of Breast Tissue Phantoms Using Acoustic Resonance Coupled with Power Doppler  

Kim, Jeong-Koo (한서대학교 방사선학과)
Ha, Myeung-Jin (한서대학교 방사선학과)
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The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea / v.27, no.2, 2008 , pp. 80-86 More about this Journal
Abstract
Breast ultrasound has many advantages over mammography but suffers from a shortcoming of being not suitable in detecting microcalcification. We studied on a method based on acoustic resonance and power Doppler to detect calcification of breast tissue using a typical 7.5 MHz linear probe used in breast ultrasound examination. We first constructed a breast tissue phantom made of gelatin and then observed calcified legions as external vibrations varied. Calcification injected to the breast tissue phantom being resonated different from the surrounding medium, and its acoustic resonance driven by external vibrations was visualized by differences for color brightness and area in ROI of power doppler. In low frequency regions, the acoustic resonance almost not appeared and showed a plateau in $300{\sim}600\;Hz$ and the color vanished as the frequency further increased.
Keywords
Acoustic resonance; Power doppler; Calcification; Brest tissue phantom;
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