Large-scale propagation of ultrasound in a 3-D breast model based on high-resolution MRI data

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 57, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1273-1284

  Salahura, Gheorghe ^a,b   Tillett, Jason C ^a   Metlay, Leon A ^b   Waag, Robert C ^a  

^a University of Rochester   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast morphology; Connective tissue segmentation; Ultrasound aberration; Visualization

Indexed keywords

ALIASING ARTIFACTS; CONNECTIVE TISSUE SEGMENTATION; CONNECTIVE TISSUES; GLOBAL THRESHOLDING; HIGH RESOLUTION; HUMAN BREAST; IMAGE PLANE; ISO SURFACE; LOCAL THRESHOLDING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNERS; MEDIAN FILTER; MODEL-BASED; NOISE REDUCTIONS; ORTHOGONAL DIRECTIONS; PULSE PROPAGATION; SEGMENTED DATA; THREE DIMENSIONS; TISSUE MORPHOLOGY; ULTRASOUND ABERRATION; ULTRASOUND BEAMS;

ABERRATIONS; ACOUSTIC NOISE MEASUREMENT; ANIMATION; COLLAGEN; DATA FLOW ANALYSIS; MORPHOLOGY; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM; RESONANCE; TISSUE; ULTRASONICS; VISUALIZATION;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

FAT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; MORPHOLOGY; MORPHOMETRICS; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; BREAST; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, MAMMARY;

EID: 77952560653     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2009.2040022     Document Type: Article

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