Mammobarography: a possible method of mass breast screening.
Preliminary details are given of a novel method of detecting breast lumps. The technique relies on the fact that such a lump will cause a perturbation in the pressure distribution when the breast is loaded against a flat plate. The pressure distribution is monitored by using the principle of frustrated total internal reflection to generate a brightness distribution which can then be presented as a contour map in synthesized colour. Using this technique, simulated lumps in breast prostheses have been detected down to a diameter of 6 mm. It is argued that this represents the basis of a method of mass breast screening.
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Department of Mechanical Engineering, Trent Polytechnic, Nottingham, UK.
D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000517:prevention & control*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008327:Mammography / Q000379:methods*; D008403:Mass Screening / Q000379:methods*; D008961:Models, Structural; D011312:Pressure