Breast imaging using transmission ultrasound: Reconstructing tissue parameters of sound speed and attenuation

BioMedical Engineering and Informatics: New Development and the Future - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on BioMedical Engineering and Informatics, BMEI 2008

Volumn 2, Issue , 2008, Pages 708-712

  Li, Cuiping ^a   Duric, Neb ^a   Huang, Lianjie ^b  

^a KARMANOS CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVES; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; BIOPHYSICS; COMPUTER NETWORKS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; CURING; DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; MEDICAL IMAGING; REPAIR; RESTORATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPEED; TOMOGRAPHY; ULTRASONIC VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; ULTRASONICS; WATER TANKS;

INFORMATICS; ULTRASOUND TOMOGRAPHY;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

EID: 51649119368     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/BMEI.2008.303     Document Type: Conference Paper

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