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A New Way of Detecting Breast Tissue Heterogeneities

 | Post date: 2021/01/9 | 
Researchers at the Amirkabir University of Technology have designed and developed an optical mammography system capable of non-destructive breast cancerous mass diagnosis.
Mahsa Nikdehqan, an Amirkabir University of Technology graduate and the executor of "Development of an Optical Mammography System for Non-Destructive Breast Cancer Diagnosis", stated: "the increasing prevalence of breast cancer in women has always caused them fear and early screening and diagnosis are of great significance. Therefore, we attempted to develop an optical mammography system capable of non-destructive breast cancerous mass diagnosis.
Referring to the method employed in the designed system to diagnose breast tissue tumors, she said: "the research carried out the process of simulating photon diffusion in the tissue for three-dimensional tomographic geometry through “finite element method” and images were reconstructed based on optical properties like the absorption coefficient”. According to her, this method is employed to measure living tissue’s optical properties using near-infrared (NIR), providing functional tissue information.
It must be noted that Dr. Saiid Setayeshi, a faculty member at the Amirkabir University of Technology, was this project’s advising professor.