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Breast Cancer
Research from Duke University in the area of breast cancer published
March 20th, 2008
According to recent research from the United States, "In this letter, we present a new waveform-diversity-based ultrasound hyperihermia technique for the treatment of breast cancer." "Waveform diversity offers-a new paradigm for beampattern design. By choosing a proper covariance matrix of the transmitted waveforms under the uniform elemental power constraint, the ultrasound system can provide a focal spot matched to the entire tumor region, and meanwhile, minimize the impact to the surrounding healthy breast tissues," wrote B. Guo and colleagues, Duke University. The researchers concluded: "As shown in our 2-D numerical simulations, this method has...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2008-03-20)
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