Microcalcifications as elastic scatterers under ultrasound

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 925-934

  Anderson, Martin E ^a   Soo, Mary S G ^a   Trahey, Gregg E ^b  

^a Duke University   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABERRATIONS; ACOUSTIC PROPERTIES; CALCIFICATION (BIOCHEMISTRY); CALCIUM COMPOUNDS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MEDICAL IMAGING; TISSUE;

CALCIUM PHOSPHATE; FARAN MODEL; MICROCALCIFICATION;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

EID: 0032121242     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/58.710559     Document Type: Article

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