Tissue Doppler and Strain Imaging for Evaluating Tissue Elasticity of Breast Lesions

Academic Radiology

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 522-529

  Thomas, Anke ^a   Warm, Mathias ^b   Hoopmann, Markus ^b   Diekmann, Felix ^a   Fischer, Thomas ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

breast lesions; breast ultrasound; elastography; Strain imaging

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; B SCAN; BREAST BIOPSY; BREAST CARCINOMA; BREAST FIBROADENOMA; BREAST FIBROSIS; BREAST LESION; BREAST PAPILLOMA; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYSTOSARCOMA PHYLLOIDES; ELASTOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FIBROCYSTIC BREAST DISEASE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGING SYSTEM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAMMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSDUCER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; ELASTICITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAMMOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; PRESSURE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, MAMMARY;

EID: 34047253931     PISSN: 10766332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.acra.2006.12.016     Document Type: Article

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