An inverse problem solution for measuring the elastic modulus of intact ex vivo breast tissue tumours

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1247-1260

  Samani, Abbas ^a   Plewes, Donald ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELASTIC MODULI; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; INDENTATION; INVERSE PROBLEMS; ITERATIVE METHODS; TUMORS;

BREAST TISSUE TUMOURS; ELASTIC PROPERTIES; ELASTOGRAPHY; FORCE DISPLACEMENT SLOPE;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ARTICLE; BREAST TUMOR; ELASTOGRAPHY; IMAGING; MEDICAL LITERATURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; YOUNG MODULUS; ALGORITHM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTICITY; FEMALE; HARDNESS; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; MECHANICAL STRESS; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ALGORITHMS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ELASTICITY; FEMALE; HARDNESS; HARDNESS TESTS; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STRESS, MECHANICAL;

EID: 34247262632     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/52/5/003     Document Type: Article

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