Ultrasonic Viscoelasticity Imaging of Nonpalpable Breast Tumors. Preliminary Results

Academic Radiology

Volumn 15, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1526-1533

  Qiu, Yupeng ^a   Sridhar, Mallika ^b   Tsou, Jean K ^b   Lindfors, Karen K ^c   Insana, Michael F ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b University of California   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; diagnosis; elasticity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST LESION; BREAST TUMOR; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAMMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISCOELASTICITY;

ADULT; BREAST NEOPLASMS; ELASTIC MODULUS; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; PALPATION; PILOT PROJECTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, MAMMARY; VISCOSITY;

EID: 55549122360     PISSN: 10766332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.acra.2008.05.023     Document Type: Article

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