Comparison of optoacoustic tomography with ultrasound and X-ray imaging for breast cancer detection

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4256, Issue , 2001, Pages 147-153

  Larin, K ^a   Hartrumpf, O ^a   Larina, I ^a   Esenaliev, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Imaging; Noninvasive; Optoacoustics

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC TRANSDUCERS; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT SCATTERING; NEODYMIUM LASERS; NONINVASIVE MEDICAL PROCEDURES; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; PHOTONS; Q SWITCHED LASERS; TUMORS; TWO DIMENSIONAL; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; X RAY RADIOGRAPHY;

BREAST CANCER; LASER INDUCED PRESSURE WAVES; LASER OPTOACOUSTIC IMAGING; OPTOACOUSTIC TOMOGRAPHY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0034868877     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.429301     Document Type: Conference Paper

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