Intra-Tumor Flow Index Can Predict the Malignant Potential of Breast Tumor: Dependent on Age and Volume

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 88-95

  Hsiao, Yi Hsuan ^a   Kuo, Shou Jen ^b   Liang, Wen Miin ^c   Huang, Yu Len ^d   Chen, Dar Ren ^b  

^a CHANG JUNG CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b Department of Medical Education and Research   (Taiwan)

^c CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d TUNGHAI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

3D power Doppler; Flow index; Vascularization index; Vascularization flow index

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED ANALYSIS; DOPPLER EFFECT; MEDICAL IMAGING; PATIENT MONITORING; THREE DIMENSIONAL; ULTRASONICS;

FLOW INDEX; PATIENT RECRUITMENT; VASCULARIZATION INDEX;

TUMORS;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOGENESIS; ARTICLE; BENIGN TUMOR; BREAST TUMOR; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FIBROADENOMA; HUMAN; INTRADUCTAL CARCINOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SOLID TUMOR; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TUMOR BLOOD FLOW; TUMOR DIAGNOSIS; TUMOR VOLUME; ULTRASOUND; VASCULARIZATION; VIRTUAL ORGAN COMPUTER AIDED ANALYSIS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MIDDLE AGED; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, MAMMARY;

EID: 37149011972     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2007.06.020     Document Type: Article

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