The traps and pitfalls inherent in the correlation of changes in the fibre diffraction pattern of hair with breast cancer

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2003, Pages

  James, Veronica J ^a,b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEALTH CARE; TUMORS; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

BREAST CANCER;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HAIR; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLISHING; TREATMENT FAILURE; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HAIR; HUMANS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; STATISTICS; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 0037458228     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/48/2/101     Document Type: Article

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