High-speed freehand tissue elasticity imaging for breast diagnosis

Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, Part 1: Regular Papers and Short Notes and Review Papers

Volumn 42, Issue 5 B, 2003, Pages 3265-3270

  Yamakawa, Makoto ^a   Nitta, Naotaka ^a   Shiina, Tsuyoshi ^a   Matsumura, Takeshi ^b   Tamano, Satoshi ^b   Mitake, Tsuyoshi ^b   Ueno, Ei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b HITACHI LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

Breast diagnosis; Freehand; High speed; Strain; The extend combined autocorrelation method; Tissue elasticity

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSIS; DISEASES; PROBES; TISSUE; ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

BREAST DIAGNOSIS; COMBINED AUTOCORRELATION METHOD; FREEHAND TISSUE COMPRESSION; TISSUE ELASTICITY IMAGING; TISSUE HARDNESS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 0041743151     PISSN: 00214922     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1143/jjap.42.3265     Document Type: Article

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