Infrared imager requirements for breast cancer detection

Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 3312-3314

  González, Francisco Javier ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE SAN LUIS POTOSÍ   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; HEAT TRANSFER; INFRARED IMAGING; NEUROLOGY; TUMORS;

FINITE ELEMENT SIMULATIONS; SUBTLE CHANGES; TRANSFER EQUATION;

MAMMOGRAPHY;

DIAGNOSTIC AGENT;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BREAST TUMOR; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVALUATION STUDY; HUMAN; INFRARED RADIATION; INFRARED SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; METHODOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THERMOGRAPHY; THERMOREGULATION;

BODY TEMPERATURE REGULATION; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; HUMANS; INFRARED RAYS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, INFRARED; THERMOGRAPHY;

EID: 57649216989     PISSN: 05891019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2007.4353309     Document Type: Conference Paper

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