Cross-imaging platform comparison of ultrasonic backscatter coefficient measurements of live rat tumors

Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine

Volumn 29, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1117-1123

  Wirtzfeld, Lauren A ^a   Ghoshal, Goutam ^a   Hafez, Zachary T ^a   Nam, Kibo ^c   Labyed, Yassin ^d   Anderson, Janelle J ^c   Herd, Maria Teresa ^c   Haak, Alexander ^a   He, Zhi ^b   Miller, Rita J ^a   Sarwate, Sandhya ^a   Simpson, Douglas G ^b   Zagzebski, James A ^c   Bigelow, Timothy A ^d   Oelze, Michael L ^a   Hall, Timothy J ^c   O'Brien Jr , William D ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d Iowa State University of Science and Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Backscatter coefficient; Quantitative ultrasound; Spontaneous mammary tumors

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; RADIO WAVES; RATS; TRANSDUCERS; TUMORS;

BACKSCATTER COEFFICIENTS; MAMMARY TUMORS; PLATFORM INDEPENDENT; QUANTITATIVE ULTRASOUNDS; RADIO-FREQUENCY DATUM; ROOT MEAN SQUARED; TECHNICAL ADVANCES; ULTRASONIC BACKSCATTER;

ERRORS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; INSTRUMENTATION; NEOPLASM; RAT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TRANSDUCER;

ANIMALS; NEOPLASMS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 77954514901     PISSN: 02784297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7863/jum.2010.29.7.1117     Document Type: Article

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