Evaluation of impedance technique for detecting breast carcinoma using a 2-D numerical model of the torso

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 873, Issue , 1999, Pages 360-369

  Radai, Michal M ^b   Abboud, Shimon ^b   Rosenfeld, Moshe ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ALGORITHM; BLOOD; BONE MARROW; BREAST CARCINOMA; BREAST TUMOR; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER TISSUE; COMPUTER ASSISTED IMPEDANCE TOMOGRAPHY; CONDUCTANCE; CONFERENCE PAPER; DIPOLE; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE; HUMAN; IMAGING SYSTEM; IMPEDANCE; LUNG; NOISE REDUCTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RIB; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SKIN; TRUNK; TUMOR VOLUME;

EID: 0033056533     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1999.tb09484.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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