Breast tumor vascularity identified by contrast enhanced ultrasound and pathology: Initial results

Ultrasonics

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 105-109

  Chaudhari, M H ^a   Forsberg, F ^a   Voodarla, A ^a   Saikali, F N ^a   Goonewardene, S ^a   Needleman, L ^a   Finkel, G C ^a   Goldberg, B B ^a  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Color flow imaging; Image processing; Tumor neovascularity; Ultrasound contrast agents

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; POLYSACCHARIDE; SHU 508;

ARTICLE; BREAST TUMOR; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; PATHOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL; VASCULARIZATION;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LINEAR MODELS; POLYSACCHARIDES; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR;

COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING; CONTRAST MEDIA; CORRELATION METHODS; FLOW MEASUREMENT; HEMODYNAMICS; MEDICAL IMAGING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; ULTRASONIC MEASUREMENT;

COLOR FLOW IMAGING;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

EID: 0034153350     PISSN: 0041624X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0041-624X(99)00146-8     Document Type: Article

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