Preprocessing in digital lensless holographic microscopy for intensity reconstructions with enhanced contrast.

In this work, a numerical method to enhance the contrast of intensity hologram reconstructions of digital lensless holographic microscopy (DLHM) is presented. The method manipulates the in-line hologram and reference images through mathematical operations between them; additionally, a sharpening operation, functionalized in terms of the parameters of the recording setup, is applied to the said images. The preprocessing of the recorded images produces a modified in-line hologram and a reference wave image from which an intensity reconstruction with a 25% improvement of its contrast, with respect to the conventional reconstruction procedure, is achieved.

Breast cancer measurements with magnetic resonance imaging, ultrasonography, and mammography.

Background: Accurate measurement of the size of breast cancers becomes more important as breast cancer therapy advances. This study reports the accuracy of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), ultrasonography and mammography for measuring the largest breast cancer diameter in comparison to the pathology measurement.

Materials And Methods: Fourteen breast cancers were examined in 13 women with MRI, ultrasonography and mammography.

Automated large-core needle biopsy of surgically removed breast lesions: comparison of samples obtained with 14-, 16-, and 18-gauge needles.

Purpose: To determine the needle size that would consistently enable the pathologist to correctly diagnose tissue core biopsy specimens.

Materials And Methods: Fifty-seven surgically removed mass lesions of the breast were sampled with a short-throw automated biopsy gun and an 18-gauge needle first, followed by a 16- and a 14-gauge needle. Samples were evaluated independently by three pathologists, and findings were compared with the final diagnosis made at surgical excision biopsy.

Silicone implant rupture: detection with US.

The authors evaluated the ability of ultrasound (US) in detection of silicone implant ruptures and compared US detection with that of mammography and physical examination in 22 women with 29 sites of implant leakage. On sonograms, leaks were evident from a highly echogenic pattern of scattered and reverberating echoes with loss of detail posterior to the echogenic area. The area appears as a "snowstorm" and has a well-defined anterior margin but a poorly defined posterior margin.