Three-dimensional Reconstruction of Fine Vascularity in Ultrasound Breast Imaging Using Contrast-enhanced Spatial Compounding

With the presented approach contrast specific artifacts can be eliminated efficiently, and a subtraction angiography can be computed. A speckle reduced three-dimensional reconstruction of submillimeter vessel structures was achieved for the first time. In the future, this technique can be applied in vivo to image the vascularity of cancer in the female breast.