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Transrectal ultrasound-waveform tomography using plane-wave ultrasound reflection data for prostate cancer imaging

  • Lianjie Huang*
  • , Kai Gao
  • , Yunsong Huang
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • Los Alamos National Laboratory

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contributionpeer-review

Abstract

Ultrasound tomography is to reconstruct tissue mechanical properties using ultrasound signals for cancer characterization. We study the capability of plane-wave ultrasound-waveform inversion to reconstruct sound-speed values of prostate tumors. Our ultrasound-waveform inversion algorithm iteratively fits synthetic ultrasound waveforms with recorded ultrasound waveforms starting from an initial model. We verify the algorithm using synthetic ultrasound data for numerical prostate phantoms consisting of multiple tumors in homogeneous and heterogeneous background prostate tissues. Our reconstruction results demonstrate that our new plane-wave transrectal ultrasound-waveform tomography has the potential to accurately reconstruct the sound-speed values of prostate tumors for cancer characterization. In addition, we build a new transrectal ultrasound tomography prototype using a 256-channel Verasonics Vantage system and a GE intracavitary curved linear array to acquire plane-wave ultrasound reflection data for transrectal ultrasound tomography.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationMedical Imaging 2018
Subtitle of host publicationPhysics of Medical Imaging
EditorsTaly Gilat Schmidt, Guang-Hong Chen, Joseph Y. Lo
PublisherSPIE
ISBN (Electronic)9781510616356
DOIs
StatePublished - 2018
Externally publishedYes
EventMedical Imaging 2018: Physics of Medical Imaging - Houston, United States
Duration: 12 Feb 201815 Feb 2018

Publication series

NameProgress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE
Volume10573
ISSN (Print)1605-7422

Conference

ConferenceMedical Imaging 2018: Physics of Medical Imaging
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityHouston
Period12/02/1815/02/18

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

  1. SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being
    SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being

Keywords

  • Imaging
  • inversion
  • plane wave
  • prostate cancer
  • sound speed
  • transrectal ultrasound
  • ultrasound-waveform tomography
  • ultrasuond reflection

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