Temperature imaging with speed of ultrasonic transmission tomography for medical treatment control: A physical model-based method

doi:10.1088/1674-1056/24/10/104303

Abstract Hyperthermia is a promising method to enhance chemo and radiation therapy of breast cancer. In the process of hyperthermia, temperature monitoring is of great importance to assure the effectiveness of treatment. The transmission speed of ultrasound in biomedical tissue changes with temperature. However, when mapping the speed of sound directly to temperature in each pixel as desired for using all speeds of ultrasound data, temperature bipolar edge enhancement artifacts occur near the boundary of two tissues with different speeds of ultrasound. After the analysis of the reasons for causing these artifacts, an optimized method is introduced to rebuild the temperature field image by using the continuity constraint as the judgment criterion. The significant smoothness of the rebuilding image in the transitional area shows that our proposed method can build a more precise temperature image for controlling the medical thermal treatment.

Keywords: temperature imaging speed of sound continuous constrain thermal therapy

Received: 17 April 2015
Revised: 11 May 2015
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PACS:	43.35.Wa	(Biological effects of ultrasound, ultrasonic tomography)
	43.80.Sh	(Medical use of ultrasonics for tissue modification (permanent and temporary))
	81.70.Cv	(Nondestructive testing: ultrasonic testing, photoacoustic testing)

Fund: Project supported in part by DoD/BCRP Idea Award, BC095397P1, the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 61201425), the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province, China (Grant No. BK20131280), the Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Provincial Higher Education Institutions, China, and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) of United States (Grant Nos. R01AR060350, R01CA91713, and R01AR055179).

Corresponding Authors: Yuan Jie, Paul L. Carson
E-mail: yuanjie@nju.edu.cn;pcarson@umich.edu

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Chu Zhe-Qi (储哲琦), Yuan Jie (袁杰), Stephen Z. Pinter, Oliver D. Kripfgans, Wang Xue-Ding (王学鼎), Paul L. Carson, Liu Xiao-Jun (刘晓峻) Temperature imaging with speed of ultrasonic transmission tomography for medical treatment control: A physical model-based method 2015 Chin. Phys. B 24 104303

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