The scanning method of ultrasound probe operation auxiliary equipment for breast cancer screening

Abstract

In stage 1 5-year survival rate of breast cancer is more than 90%. So, early detection is important for breast cancer, and it is effective to have regular examination for breast cancer.But, inspect accuracy depends on inspector skills because it is difficult to keep the probe vertical. And, the size and position of cancer is unclear.The aim of our study is to keep the probe by the auxiliary equipment.Here we describe operation verification of auxiliary equipment. In the guidelines of breast cancer screening, it needs to find minimum 5mm object on ultrasound image. The goal of this study was to detect object of minimum 5mm. Next, we consider image acquisition method. When auxiliary equipment scans, the phantom was deformed by the probe. We suggest new scanning method. It can prevent to deform the phantom and to obtain ultrasound image. We describe the result of operation verification.