Quantitative analysis of contrast enhanced subharmonic breast images

Proceedings - IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium

Volumn 1, Issue , 2006, Pages 1584-1587

  Forsberg, F ^a   Soparawala, R ^a   Merton, D A ^a   Piccoli, C W ^a   Palazzo, J J ^a   Hall, A L ^b  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GE HEALTHCARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast imaging; In vivo perfusion estimation; Quantitative flow measurements; Subharmonic imaging

Indexed keywords

BENIGN TUMOR; BREAST IMAGES; BREAST IMAGING; BREAST LESION; BREAST MASS; CANINE MODELS; CONSECUTIVE IMAGES; CONTRAST-ENHANCED; GE HEALTHCARES; GRAY SCALE; IN-VIVO; LINEAR RELATIONSHIPS; MAXIMUM INTENSITIES; MEAN TRANSIT TIME; PATIENT POPULATION; POWER DOPPLER; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE FLOW MEASUREMENTS; QUANTITATIVE METHOD; REGIONS OF INTEREST; SILVER SPRING; SUBHARMONIC IMAGING; SUBHARMONICS; TEMPORAL DATA; TIME-INTENSITY CURVES; ULTRASOUND CONTRAST AGENT;

FLOW MEASUREMENT; TUMORS; ULTRASONICS;

FLOWMETERS;

EID: 67649326690     PISSN: 10510117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ULTSYM.2006.376     Document Type: Conference Paper

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