Creating Individual-specific Biomechanical Models of the Breast for Medical Image Analysis

Academic Radiology

Volumn 15, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1425-1436

  Rajagopal, Vijay ^a   Lee, Angela ^a   Chung, Jae Hoon ^a   Warren, Ruth ^b   Highnam, Ralph P ^c   Nash, Martyn P ^a,d   Nielsen, Poul M F ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b ADDENBROOKE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c Highnam Associates Ltd ^*  (New Zealand)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Breast biomechanics; breast cancer; finite element modeling; image registration; medical image analysis; soft tissue mechanics

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; BREAST; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IN VIVO STUDY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN SURFACE; THEORETICAL MODEL; WATER IMMERSION;

ADULT; BIOMECHANICS; BREAST; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 55149109121     PISSN: 10766332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.acra.2008.07.017     Document Type: Article

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