Will Help Detect Breast Cancer
Figure 1 - A modeled strain field. Targets, simulating breast lesions at different depths, are placed on the diagonal of a gelatin block. When compressed from above, the vertical strain field is predicted by the software.
An elastogram of the block is measures (2a) without and (2b) with companding, a noise-reducing process that signal processors use.
Figure 3 - Combining proprietary software with an ultrasound simulator, an elastogram is simulated and found to be very similar to the original measured test.
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