Lesion size ratio for differentiating breast masses

Proceedings of the IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium

Volumn 2, Issue , 2003, Pages 1247-1250

  Hall, Timothy ^a   Svensson, William ^b   Von Behren, Pat ^c   Zhu, Yanning ^d   Malin, Joe ^d   Spalding, Candace ^d   Connors, Alissa ^b   Chopra, Dupinder ^b   Lowery, Carol ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b CHARING CROSS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c Siemens Ultrasound   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; DATA ACQUISITION; DEFORMATION; ELASTICITY; FEEDBACK; MAMMOGRAPHY; SCANNING; STRAIN;

B-MODE IMAGES; CLINICAL SONOGRAPHY; ECHO FIELDS; LESION SIZE RATIO;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

EID: 4143120920     PISSN: 10510117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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