Real-time sonomammography based on the intersecting canonical body approximation of the diffracted wave field

Ultrasonics

Volumn 36, Issue 1-5, 1998, Pages 643-652

  Scotti, Thierry ^a   Wirgin, Armand ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Frequency domain inverse problem; Medical diagnostics by ultrasound

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; INVERSE PROBLEMS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; ULTRASONIC MEASUREMENT;

SONOMAMMOGRAPHY;

MAMMOGRAPHY;

WATER;

ACOUSTICS; ADIPOSE TISSUE; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BREAST; BREAST TUMOR; ECHOGRAPHY; ECHOMAMMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FIBROCYSTIC BREAST DISEASE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY;

ACOUSTICS; ADIPOSE TISSUE; ALGORITHMS; BREAST; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; FIBROCYSTIC BREAST DISEASE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, MAMMARY; WATER;

EID: 0031987365     PISSN: 0041624X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0041-624X(97)00127-3     Document Type: Article

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