Contrast enhanced subharmonic breast imaging: Work in progress

Proceedings - IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium

Volumn 1, Issue , 2005, Pages 625-628

  Forsberg, F ^a   Piccoli, C W ^a   Ro, R ^a   Lipcan, K J ^a   Merton, D A ^a   Liu, J B ^a   Soparawala, R ^a   Shi, W T ^a   Hall, A L ^b  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GE HEALTHCARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast imaging; In vivo flow measurements; Perfusion estimation; Subharmonic imaging

Indexed keywords

BREAST IMAGING; IN VIVO FLOW MEASUREMENTS; PERFUSION ESTIMATION; SUBHARMONIC IMAGING;

BLOOD; DOPPLER EFFECT; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 30144435530     PISSN: 10510117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ULTSYM.2005.1602930     Document Type: Conference Paper

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