Detectability of breast lesions with CARI ultrasonography using a bioacoustic computational approach

Computers and Mathematics with Applications

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 96-106

  Bounaim A ^a   Holm, S ^b   Chen, Wen ^c   Odegard A ^d  

^a SCHLUMBERGER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c INSTITUTE OF APPLIED PHYSICS AND COMPUTATIONAL MATHEMATICS   (China)

^d SIMULA RESEARCH LABORATORY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Bioacoustic modeling; Breast cancer; CARI technique; Detectability of lesions; Finite element time domain method; Ultrasound time domain wave propagation

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC PROPERTIES; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COST EFFECTIVENESS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MEDICAL IMAGING; ULTRASONOGRAPHY; WAVE PROPAGATION;

BIOACOUSTIC MODELING; BREAST CANCER; CARI TECHNIQUE; ULTRASOUND TIME DOMAIN WAVE PROPAGATION;

ONCOLOGY;

EID: 34347345104     PISSN: 08981221     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.camwa.2006.03.037     Document Type: Article

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