PERSONAL Sign in with your SPIE account to access your personal subscriptions or to use specific features such as save to my library, sign up for alerts, save searches, etc.
A multi-dimensional thermal model was presented to explore the relationship between an embedded tumor and the
resulting temperature distributions on the breast surface on purpose to be an adjunct tool for interpreting thermograms.
Steady-state temperature distributions on the skin of the breast were attained by numerically solving the heat diffusion
equation. The numerical results show that the temperature distributions in the thermal images of breast tumor can be
significantly influenced by surface air flow and environmental temperature. Furthermore, the simulated results also show
that thermography do not have sufficient sensitivity for detection of a small tumor in deeper region. Finally, the
feasibility and limitations of capturing tumor information by infrared thermal imaging is discussed. Our study shows that
the heat patterns over breasts can be well simulated with this comprehensive thermal model, which may be helpful for
the doctor to interpret the thermograms.
Hong-qin Yang,Qing-yuan Lin,Zhen Ye,Shu-qiang Chen, andShu-sen Xie
"Numerical simulation of thermograpy for breast tumor detection", Proc. SPIE 6850, Multimodal Biomedical Imaging III, 685011 (14 February 2008); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.762955
ACCESS THE FULL ARTICLE
INSTITUTIONAL Select your institution to access the SPIE Digital Library.
PERSONAL Sign in with your SPIE account to access your personal subscriptions or to use specific features such as save to my library, sign up for alerts, save searches, etc.
The alert did not successfully save. Please try again later.
Hong-qin Yang, Qing-yuan Lin, Zhen Ye, Shu-qiang Chen, Shu-sen Xie, "Numerical simulation of thermograpy for breast tumor detection," Proc. SPIE 6850, Multimodal Biomedical Imaging III, 685011 (14 February 2008); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.762955