Terahertz imaging applied to cancer diagnosis

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 55, Issue 16, 2010, Pages 4615-4623

  Brun, M A ^a   Formanek, F ^a   Yasuda, A ^a   Sekine, M ^a   Ando, N ^a   Eishii, Y ^a  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMAN; LUNG TUMOR; METHODOLOGY; NEOPLASM; ONCOLOGY; PANCREAS CARCINOMA; PANCREAS TUMOR; PATHOLOGY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TERAHERTZ SPECTROSCOPY;

CARCINOMA, PANCREATIC DUCTAL; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MEDICAL ONCOLOGY; NEOPLASMS; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TERAHERTZ SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 78149311164     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/55/16/001     Document Type: Article

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