Variabl Breast Conditions: Comparison of Conventional and Real-time Compound Ultrasonography

Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 85-96

  Kwak, Jin Young ^a,b   Kim, Eun Kyung ^b   You, Jai Kyung ^c   Oh, Ki Keun ^b  

^a CHA University   (South Korea)

^b Yonsei University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^c National Health Insurance Corporation   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Breast ultrasonography; Ultrasonography; Ultrasound technology

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ANALYSIS; MEDICAL IMAGING; REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

ULTRASONICS;

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOMAMMOGRAPHY; FAT NECROSIS; GRANULOMATOUS INFLAMMATION; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MASTITIS; REAL TIME ECHOGRAPHY; ADULT; AGED; BREAST DISEASE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED;

ADULT; AGED; BREAST DISEASES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, MAMMARY;

EID: 1642495689     PISSN: 02784297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7863/jum.2004.23.1.85     Document Type: Article

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