In vivo absorption, scattering, and physiologic properties of 58 malignant breast tumors determined by broadband diffuse optical spectroscopy

Journal of Biomedical Optics

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2006, Pages

  Cerussi, Albert ^a   Shah, Natasha ^a   Hsiang, David ^b   Durkin, Amanda ^a   Butler, John ^b   Tromberg, Bruce J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Frequency domain photon migration; Near infrared; Photomigration; Tissue spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; ONCOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SCATTERING; TUMORS;

BREAST CANCER; BROADBAND DIFFUSE OPTICAL SPECTROSCOPY; CONTINUOUS-WAVE NEAR-INFRARED LIGHT; DIFFUSE OPTICAL IMAGING; MULTIFREQUENCY INTENSITY-MODULATED; PHOTOMIGRATION;

MAMMOGRAPHY;

DIAGNOSTIC AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BREAST TUMOR; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFRARED RADIATION; INFRARED SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFRARED RAYS; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, INFRARED;

EID: 33751312072     PISSN: 10833668     EISSN: 15602281     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.2337546     Document Type: Article

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