Elastography imaging of small animal oncology models: A feasibility study

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 29, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1291-1296

  Bilgen, Mehmet ^a,d   Srinivasan, Seshadri ^a,c   Lachman, Lawrence B ^b   Ophir, Jonathan ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^c University of Houston   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioelasticity; Elastography; Small animal oncology model; Tumor; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

MEDICAL IMAGING; ONCOLOGY; TUMORS;

ELASTOGRAPHY;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BREAST CARCINOMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELASTICITY; ELASTOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TUMOR CELL; ULTRASOUND SCANNER;

EID: 0141527411     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0301-5629(03)01013-5     Document Type: Article

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