Improved diagnostics through quantitative ultrasound imaging

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 1956-1959

  Hruska, David P ^a   Sanchez, Jose ^a   Oelze, Michael L ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSIS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING; ELECTROSTATIC DEVICES; ELECTROSTATIC DISCHARGE; IMAGE RESOLUTION; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MEDICAL IMAGING; MICROSTRUCTURE; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; ULTRASONIC SCATTERING;

CODED EXCITATION TECHNIQUES; CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; DIAGNOSTIC CAPABILITIES; HISTOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; QUANTITATIVE ULTRASOUNDS; STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE; TISSUE MICROSTRUCTURES; TISSUE MIMICKING PHANTOM;

TISSUE;

EID: 77950989872     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2009.5333465     Document Type: Conference Paper

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