In vivo Breast Sound-Speed Imaging with Ultrasound Tomography

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 35, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1615-1628

  Li, Cuiping ^a   Duric, Nebojsa ^a   Littrup, Peter ^a   Huang, Lianjie ^b  

^a KARMANOS CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast imaging; Sound speed; Total variation; Ultrasound tomography

Indexed keywords

ADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY; BI-RADS; BREAST CANCER; BREAST CANCER RISK; BREAST DENSITY; BREAST IMAGING; BREAST LESION; CLINICAL RESPONSE; DATA SETS; GLANDULAR TISSUE; IN-VIVO; SOUND-SPEED; SPEED DISTRIBUTIONS; TIKHONOV REGULARIZATION; TOTAL-VARIATION; ULTRASOUND TOMOGRAPHY;

ACOUSTIC WAVES; CHEMOTHERAPY; EDGE DETECTION; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; SPEED; TOMOGRAPHY; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS; ULTRASONICS;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST CYST; BREAST LESION; BREAST TUMOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; FIBROADENOMA; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IN VIVO STUDY; INTRADUCTAL CARCINOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PARENCHYMA; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ULTRASOUND TOMOGRAPHY;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, DUCTAL, BREAST; COHORT STUDIES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; FIBROADENOMA; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SELECTION; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, MAMMARY;

EID: 70349211603     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2009.05.011     Document Type: Article

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