Research and Development in Breast Ultrasound

1. Discovery of the Piezoelectric Phenomenon: Curie and Langevin 2. A Review of Theoretical and Experimental Aspects of Imaging the Attributes of Tissues in Vivo 3. In Vivo Breast Examination by Real-time Freehand Elasticity Imaging System 4. Usefulness of Ultrasonic Strain Measurement-based Mechanical Properties Imaging Technique -Toward Realization of Short TimeDiagnosis/Treatment 5. Mass Detection Using A Texture Feature Coding Method 6. Breast Tissue Assessments Based on High Order Mechanical Properties 7. Formes of tumors 8. Usefulness of Depth Width Ratio in Differentiation of Regular Invasive Ductal Carcinoma from Fibroadenoma 9. Margin, border and boundary zone 10. Revised Diagnostic Criteria the Breast (draft) 'Internal Echoes' 11. Incident Angle of the Plunging Artery of the Breast Tumours 12. JSUM Diagnostic Guideline for Mass Image Forming Lesions 13. Diagnostic Guidelines for Non-mass Image Forming Lesions by Japan Association of Breast and Thyroid Sonology (JABTS) and Japan Society of Ultrasonics in Medicine (Draft) 14. JABTS Breast Ultrasound Training Course - Its Progra, and Results 15. Ductal Carcinoma In Situ of the Breast: The Pathological Reason for the Diversity of its Clinical Imaging 16. 'Ductal Carcinoma in situ (DCIS) 17. Incidence, prognosis and diagnostics! aspects of mammography, galactography and needle biopsies' 18. The Ultrasonic Diagnosis of Non-Palpable DCIS without Calcification on MMG and Nipple Discharge (Advocacy of a New Term '3 non DCIS') 19. Ultrasonc Diagnosis of Non-Mass Image Forming Breast Cancer 20. Characteristic mammography and ultrasonography findings of Ductal carcinoma in situ of the breast arising in sclerosing adenosis 21. Preoperative Ultrasonic Assessment for Breast Conserving Treatment 22. Recent Advances in Multidimensional 3D/4D Breast 23. 3D Ultrasound Based Evaluation of Lesions in the Uncompressed Breast 24. Key Note Lecture: The Role of Ultrasound in PopulationBased Breast Cancer Screening Programs 25. Breast Cancer Screening by Palpation, Ultrasound and Mammography 26. A Review of the Breast Cancer Undetectable by Ultrasonograpby in a Screening Setting. 27. Ultrasonic Screening of Thyroid in the Patients with Breast Complaints 28. Phantom and Human Experiments for Breast Cancer Detection by Ultrasound Transmission Technique 29. Breast Cancer Ablation; Imaging and Early Experience 30. US-Guided Mammotome Biopsy of Breast Lesions in Comparison with US-Guided Aspiration Biopsy Cytology 31. Ultrasonographic Appearance and Cinical Implication of Bilateral Breast Infiltration with Leukemia Cells 32. Analysis of Ultrasonographic findings of breast masses by the NAGASAWA's Computer-Aided Diagnosis system 33. Dorsal growth of breast cancer may correlate with the prognosis

Not only the current knowledge of breast ultrasound diagnosis but also drafts of JSUM diagnostic guidelines for mass and non-mass image forming are included.