Traditional biomedical imaging technology has a difficulty in detecting the boundary of a breast tumor at its early stage since the difference in the sound resistance or density between the early breast tumor and normal tissue is small. In this paper, the boundary of an early breast tumor is detected successfully by using a new method called DSF-DOT (delta sound field diffusion optical tomography), which is based on a sound field and the light diffusion theory. At the same time, the influence of the size of the acting area of the sound field on the reconstruction of the tumor boundary is investigated in details. The work is useful for further research on the diagnosis of early breast cancers.
Breast Neoplasms ; diagnosis ; Female ; Humans ; Pregnancy ; Tomography, Optical ; methods