Optimal scanning technique to cover the whole breast using an automated breast volume scanner

Japanese Journal of Radiology

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 325-328

  Tozaki, Mitsuhiro ^a   Isobe, Sachiko ^a   Yamaguchi, Miki ^a   Ogawa, Yukari ^a   Kohara, Masami ^a   Joo, Chanwoong ^b   Fukuma, Eisuke ^a  

^a KAMEDA MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^b Marketing Division   (Japan)

Author keywords

Automated; Breast neoplasm; Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BREAST LESION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ECHOGRAPHY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HAND; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIODIAGNOSTIC EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES; TIME;

ADULT; AGED; AUTOMATION; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MIDDLE AGED; SUPINE POSITION; TIME FACTORS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, MAMMARY;

EID: 77955500347     PISSN: 18671071     EISSN: 1867108X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11604-010-0424-2     Document Type: Article

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