Use of a thermocouple for malignant tumor detection

IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Magazine

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 64-66

  Zhao, Qi ^a,b,c   Zhang, Jiaming ^a   Wang, Ru ^d   Cong, Wei ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^b EPSRC Peer Review College

^c NEW YORK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (United States)

^d DALIAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AXILLA; BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; THERMOGRAPHY;

BODY TEMPERATURE; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; THERMOGRAPHY; THERMOMETERS;

EID: 38549148716     PISSN: 07395175     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MEMB.2007.913292     Document Type: Article

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