Performance characterization of a volumetric breast ultrasound scanner

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6510, Issue PART 1, 2007, Pages

  Nelson, Thomas R ^a   Nebeker, Jakob ^a   Denton, Susie ^a   Cervino, Laura I ^a   Pretorius, Dolores H ^a   Boone, John M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast; Cancer; Detection; Diagnosis; Tomography; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY; DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE ACQUISITION; MEDICAL IMAGING; TRANSDUCERS;

PENDANT BREAST; ROTATIONAL GANTRY; ULTRASOUND SCANNER;

ULTRASONICS;

EID: 35148889226     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.708325     Document Type: Conference Paper

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