Ultrasonic mechanical relaxation imaging and the material science of breast cancer

Proceedings - IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium

Volumn 2, Issue , 2005, Pages 739-742

  Insana, Michael F ^a   Jie, Liu ^a   Sridhar, Mallika ^b   Pellot Barakat, Claire ^b  

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

^b University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREAST CANCER; ULTRASONIC MECHANICAL RELAXATION IMAGING; UNIAXIAL COMPRESSIONS; VISCOUS CREEP;

MEDICAL IMAGING; ONCOLOGY; TISSUE; TUMORS; ULTRASONICS; VISCOELASTICITY;

MATERIALS SCIENCE;

EID: 33847164459     PISSN: 10510117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ULTSYM.2005.1602957     Document Type: Conference Paper

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