Ultrasound breast imaging using full angle spatial compounding: in-vivo results

Proceedings - IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 54-57

  Hansen, Christian ^a   Hiittebrauker, Nils ^a   Schasse, Alexander ^a   Wilkening, Wilko ^a   Ermert, Helmut ^a   Hollenhorst, Markus ^a   Heuser, Lothar ^a   Schulte Altedomeburg, Gemot ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Echo Tomography; Female Breast; Time ofFlight Tomography; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

MAMMOGRAPHY; TOMOGRAPHY; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS; ULTRASONICS;

BREAST CANCER; BREAST IMAGING; BREAST LESION; ECHO TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE BREAST; PERFUSION IMAGING; SPATIAL COMPOUNDING; ULTRASOUND DATA;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 67649337533     PISSN: 10510117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ultsym.2008.0014     Document Type: Conference Paper

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