Progress in freehand elastography of the breast

IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems

Volumn E85-D, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 5-14

  Bamber, Jeffrey C ^a   Barbone, Paul E ^b   Bush, Nigel L ^a   Cosgrove, David O ^c   Doyely, Marvin M ^a   Fuechsel, Frank G ^c   Meaney, Paul M ^d   Miller, Naomi R ^a   Shiina, Tsuyoshi ^d   Tranquart, Francois ^e  

^a NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE   (United Kingdom)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE HEALTHCARE NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF TOURS   (France)

Author keywords

Elasticity; Freehand; Imaging; Perception; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ELASTICITY; SENSORY PERCEPTION; TUMORS; ULTRASONICS;

FREEHAND ELASTOGRAPHY;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 0036458639     PISSN: 09168532     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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