 Current Research
Breast Cancer Research
Dr. Wild's major
clinical research interest was, and still is, in applying ultrasonic technology
to early breast cancer to facilitate economic, safe, harmless and effective mass
screening of the population.
In 1953 he discovered
the A-mode area ratio which was a predictive number for tissue malignancy
obtained by ultrasonically comparing areas under the A-mode traces of normal and
abnormal tissue. The
A-mode area ratio is still an important work-in-progress.
In
1996 Dr. Wild received a National
Science Foundation
grant
to support development of his new transducer design and related software for A-mode area ratio processing. In
furtherance of his vision of mass screening for breast cancer and other
diagnostic ultrasound medical applications, he is currently continuing
development of his A-mode area ratio applications, transducer improvements and
non-imaging methods for ultrasonic tissue examination.
Ultimately,
Dr. Wild hopes to provide men and women of all ages with a safe, painless and
effective alternative to x-ray mammography.
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