Three-dimensional high-frequency backscatter and envelope quantification of cancerous human lymph nodes

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 345-357

  Mamou, Jonathan ^a   Coron, Alain ^b,c   Oelze, Michael L ^d   Saegusa Beecroft, Emi ^e   Hata, Masaki ^e   Lee, Paul ^a   Machi, Junji ^e   Yanagihara, Eugene ^e   Laugier, Pascal ^b,c   Feleppa, Ernest J ^a  

^a RIVERSIDE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

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

^e KUAKINI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer; High frequency ultrasound; Lymph nodes; Micrometastases; Quantitative ultrasound

Indexed keywords

CANCER; HIGH-FREQUENCY ULTRASOUND; LYMPH NODE; MICROMETASTASES; QUANTITATIVE ULTRASOUNDS;

BACKSCATTERING; BODY FLUIDS; DISEASES; ESTIMATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TISSUE; ULTRASONIC DEVICES; ULTRASONICS;

ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS;

ARTICLE; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOUND INTENSITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHMS; CARCINOMA; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STOMACH NEOPLASMS;

EID: 79851479629     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2010.11.020     Document Type: Article

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