Changes in the diffraction pattern of hair resulting from mechanical damage can occlude the changes that relate to breast cancer

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 48, Issue 14, 2003, Pages

  James, Veronica J ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOKERATIN;

BREAST CANCER; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; DIFFRACTION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FIBER; HAIR ANALYSIS; HAIR LOSS; HUMAN; LETTER; MICROMORPHOLOGY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCALP HAIR;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; HAIR; HUMANS; SPECIMEN HANDLING; STATISTICS; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 0043175131     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/48/14/101     Document Type: Letter

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