Ultrasonic viscoelasticity imaging of nonpalpable breast lesions

Proceedings of the 31st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society: Engineering the Future of Biomedicine, EMBC 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 4424-4427

  Qiu, Yupeng ^a   Insana, Michael F ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSIS; MEDICINE;

COMPUTATION TIME; DIAGNOSTIC PERFORMANCE; ELASTICITY IMAGES; INPUT PARAMETER; MALIGNANT LESION; NONPALPABLE BREAST LESIONS; TISSUE SPECIFICS; VISCOELASTICITY IMAGING;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 77950980529     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2009.5332747     Document Type: Conference Paper

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