Emerging Technologies in Breast Imaging & Mammography

This book contains over 30 review chapters covering all new and emerging technologies for breast imaging and mammography including a wide variety of topics; General morphology of benign and malignant breast lesions, Breast Optical Imaging, Hybrid Ultrasound and Optical technique for Breast Cancer Imaging, Digital Breast Tomosynthesis, In vivo optical characterization of the female breast by time resolved diffuse spectroscopy, Optical Mammography, Microwave Breast Imaging, Molecular Imaging of Breast Ultrasound, Scintimmamography for Breast Imaging, Phase Contrast Mammography, Elasticity Imaging, On the Measurement of the DQE for Mammographic Imaging Detectors, Physics of Mammography Detectors, Breast tomosynthesis of amorphous selenium (a-Se) based full field digital mammography (FFDM) system, Breast Imaging using PET, MR Elastography of Breast Imaging, Tomosynthesis for C-Arm Breast Imaging, Characterization and Detection of architectural distortion in mammograms using orientation fields, MR-X-ray Fusion for Breast Modeling, FFDMUS: Full Field Digital Mammography and Ultrasound System, Vibro-accoustography for Breast Imaging, Stereo Breast Imaging, CAD Algorithms for Evaluation of Mammography Displays, Application in Surgical Breast Imaging using 3-D Ultrasound and CT, Telemammography: Application of Telemedicine in Breast Imaging, Neural Network System for Analysis of Breast Nuclei in Histopathological Sections, Automated detection for architectural distortions with retraction and spiculation on mammograms, 3-D Interventional Ultrasound for Breast Imaging, Medical Displays for Mammography, Analytical and Monte Carlo X-ray Spectra Modeling in Mammography, Infra-red Technology for Breast Imaging, Future of Breast Imaging Technologies: Cost Vs. Effective Therapy, etc. Figures, illustrations and photos are presented in colors for high quality imaging.