ArticlePloS one2023
Imaging breast malignancies with the Twente Photoacoustic Mammoscope 2.
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- Hybrid three-dimensional full-view multi-wavelength photoacoustic and ultrasound breast tomography.Photoacoustics · 2026Article
- De-aberration for noninvasive transcranial photoacoustic computed tomography through an adult human skull.Communications physics · 2026Article
- Panoramic photoacoustic computed tomography with learning-based classification enhances breast lesion characterization.Nature biomedical engineering · 2026Article
- Reconstruction algorithm for photoacoustic tomography based on the L-alternating direction method of multipliers model.Journal of biomedical optics · 2025Article
- High-speed photoacoustic and ultrasonic computed tomography of the breast tumor for early diagnosis with enhanced accuracy.Science advances · 2025Article
- Artifacts in photoacoustic imaging: Origins and mitigations.Photoacoustics · 2025Article
- Advances in Photoacoustic Imaging of Breast Cancer.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Multiparametric super-resolution optoacoustic imaging with ICG-tagged microbubbles.Materials today. Bio · 2025Article
- A primer on current status and future opportunities of clinical optoacoustic imaging.Npj imaging · 2025Review
- Automated three-dimensional image registration for longitudinal photoacoustic imaging.Journal of biomedical optics · 2024Article
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Abstract
Clinical measurements on breast cancer patients were performed with a three-dimensional tomographic photoacoustic prototype imager (PAM 2). Patients with a suspicious lesion, visiting the center for breast care of a local hospital, were included in the study. The acquired photoacoustic images were compared to conventional clinical images. Of 30 scanned patients, 19 were diagnosed with one or more malignancies, of which a subset of four patients was selected for detailed analysis. Reconstructed images were processed to enhance image quality and the visibility of blood vessels. Processed photoacoustic images were compared to contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance images where available, which aided in localizing the expected tumoral region. In two cases, spotty high-intensity photoacoustic signals could be seen in the tumoral region, attributable to the tumor. One of these cases also displayed a relatively high image entropy at the tumor site, likely related to the chaotic vascular networks associated with malignancies. For the other two cases, it was not possible to identify features indicative of malignancy, because of limitations in the illumination scheme and difficulties in locating the region of interest in the photoacoustic image.
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