Performance of Vibro-Acoustography in Detecting Microcalcifications in Excised Human Breast Tissue: A Study of 74 Tissue Samples

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 307-312

  Alizad, Azra ^a   Fatemi, Mostafa ^a   Wold, Lester E ^b   Greenleaf, James F ^a  

^a Mayo Clinic   (United States)

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast; Mammography; Microcalcification; Ultrasound; Vibro acoustography

Indexed keywords

CALCIFICATION (BIOCHEMISTRY); IMAGING SYSTEMS; IONIZATION; MAMMOGRAPHY; NONINVASIVE MEDICAL PROCEDURES; TUMORS; VIBRATIONS (MECHANICAL); X RAY RADIOGRAPHY;

BREAST CANCER; MICROCALCIFICATION; VIBRO-ACOUSTOGRAPHY;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; REPR PROTEIN, STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; BREAST DISEASE; CALCINOSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; ECHOGRAPHY; ECHOMAMMOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; HUMAN; MAMMOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VALIDATION STUDY; VIBRATION;

ACOUSTICS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BREAST DISEASES; CALCINOSIS; CULTURE TECHNIQUES; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, MAMMARY; VIBRATION;

EID: 1642409418     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2004.824241     Document Type: Article

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