Improving Three-Dimensional Near-Infrared Imaging Systems for Breast Cancer Diagnosis

The improved three-dimensional imaging system by near-infrared light emission in breast tissue to more accurate diagnosis of tumour is presented in this paper. Based on the repeated experiments in this research, the result is that in this imaging system a more accurate diagnosis of abnormal area depends on the location of the sources and detectors. Therefore, an optimal location model has been proposed to a more suitable placement of sources and detectors. In this article, human samples with the breast cancer have not been examined due to the inaccessibility of three-dimensional imaging system by near-infrared lights. These experiments should have been conducted frequently for obtaining the more accurate reconstructed images, in order to evaluate the optical image reconstruction toolbox of NIRFAST 7.2 that has been coded in MATLAB programming environment and then the obtained results have been compared with the results of similar articles. The obtained results have shown that the proposed placement of sources and detectors has detected the abnormal area with a much lower error rate as well as the proposed placement of sources and detectors has provided a good result in simultaneous diagnosis of the two abnormal areas.