Ultrasonic elasticity imaging as a tool for breast cancer diagnosis and research

Current Medical Imaging Reviews

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 157-164

  Pellot Barakat, Claire ^a,b   Sridhar, Mallika ^a   Lindfors, Karen K ^c   Insana, Michael F ^a,d  

^a University of California   (United States)

^b INSERM   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

Desmoplasia; Palpation; Strain imaging; Tumor metabolism; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ALGORITHM; BREAST CANCER; BREAST LESION; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER RESEARCH; CANCER SIZE; CONTRAST; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DISEASE COURSE; ECHOGRAPHY; ELASTICITY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IN VIVO STUDY; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; REVIEW; RIGIDITY; SAMPLE SIZE; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; ULTRASONIC ELASTICITY IMAGING;

EID: 33745862730     PISSN: 15734056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/157340506775541631     Document Type: Review

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