Time-resolved optical mammography between 637 and 985 nm: Clinical study on the detection and identification of breast lesions

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 50, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 2469-2488

  Taroni, Paola ^a   Torricelli, Alessandro ^a   Spinelli, Lorenzo ^a   Pifferi, Antonio ^a   Arpaia, Francesco ^a   Danesini, Gianmaria ^b   Cubeddu, Rinaldo ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^b Dipartimento di Radiologia   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD; LIPIDS; MEDICAL IMAGING; OXYGEN; PATIENT MONITORING; TISSUE; WATER;

BREAST LESIONS; SCATTERING IMAGES; SCATTERING PROPERTIES; TIME-RESOLVED OPTICAL MAMMOGRAPHY;

MAMMOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; BLOOD OXYGEN TENSION; BREAST CARCINOMA; BREAST FIBROADENOMA; CANCER CYTODIAGNOSIS; CANCER PATIENT; ECHOMAMMOGRAPHY; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; LIGHT EXPOSURE; LIGHT INTENSITY; LIGHT SCATTERING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; OPTICAL DENSITY; OPTICAL ROTATORY DISPERSION; PATIENT INFORMATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUMOR VOLUME;

BREAST CYST; BREAST DISEASES; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CLINICAL TRIALS; FEMALE; FIBROADENOMA; FIBROCYSTIC BREAST DISEASE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL;

EID: 20044385272     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/50/11/003     Document Type: Article

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