Realistic novel breast and breast cancer phantoms for the study of imaging and therapy ultrasound

Abstract

This paper describes the procedure to make a realistic and novel breast and breast cancer phantoms in order to mimic acoustic and geometric properties of the woman breast. Comparing the propagation speed of sound in our phantoms with others papers, we achieved 96.34 % of similarity in breast phantoms and 96.99 % of similarity in breast cancer phantoms by using accessible and cheap materials; furthermore, the phantom is easy to prepare. Images taken with a commercial equipment are presented.