title: Comparison of temporal and spectral scattering methods using acoustically large breast models derived from magnetic resonance images.
abstract: Accurate and efficient modeling of ultrasound propagation through realistic tissue models is important to many aspects of clinical ultrasound imaging. Simplified problems with known solutions are often used to study and validate numerical methods. Greater confidence in a time-domain k-space method and a frequency-domain fast multipole method is established in this paper by analyzing results for realistic models of the human breast. Models of breast tissue were produced by segmenting magnetic resonance images of ex vivo specimens into seven distinct tissue types. After confirming with histologic analysis by pathologists that the model structures mimicked in vivo breast, the tissue types were mapped to variations in sound speed and acoustic absorption. Calculations of acoustic scattering by the resulting model were performed on massively parallel supercomputer clusters using parallel implementations of the k-space method and the fast multipole method. The efficient use of these resources was confirmed by parallel efficiency and scalability studies using large-scale, realistic tissue models. Comparisons between the temporal and spectral results were performed in representative planes by Fourier transforming the temporal results. An RMS field error less than 3% throughout the model volume confirms the accuracy of the methods for modeling ultrasound propagation through human breast.
authors.affiliation: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627.
authors.forename: Andrew J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Hesford
authors.affiliation: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627.
authors.forename: Jason C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Tillett
authors.affiliation: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627.
authors.forename: Jeffrey P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Astheimer
authors.affiliation: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Department of Imaging Sciences, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627.
authors.forename: Robert C
authors.initials: RC
authors.lastname: Waag
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D001940:Breast / Q000473:pathology*; D003198:Computer Simulation; D005260:Female; D005583:Fourier Analysis; D006801:Humans; D007090:Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted / Q000379:methods*; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008953:Models, Anatomic; D009038:Motion; D009716:Numerical Analysis, Computer-Assisted; D011312:Pressure; D012542:Scattering, Radiation; D013016:Sound; D013997:Time Factors; D014465:Ultrasonics / Q000379:methods*; D016217:Ultrasonography, Mammary / Q000379:methods*
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