Resumen
The present work represents a preliminary performance assessment of a simulated system for Time Domain Diffuse Optical Tomography, in view of the upcoming development of a real system for breast cancer imaging, which shall feature a reduced number of sources and detectors, compact silicon-based detectors, and that shall avoid exceedingly long breast examination times. These features make the proposed system suitable to be integrated into a compact hand-held probe for breast lesion characterization (malignant vs. benign). To improve the reconstructions, morphological information will be provided by ultrasound imaging, integrating an ultrasound transducer in the probe along with the TD-DOT instrumentation.