Analysis of human fibroadenomas using three-dimensional impedance maps

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1206-1213

  Dapore, Alexander J ^a   King, Michael R ^a   Harter, Josephine ^b   Sarwate, Sandhya ^a   Oelze, Michael L ^a   Zagzebski, James A ^b   Do, Minh N ^a   Hall, Timothy J ^b   O'Brien, William D ^a  

^a United States of America   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Biomedical ultrasound; tissue modeling; ultrasonic backscatter analysis; ultrasound simulation

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERED POWER; BIOMEDICAL ULTRASOUND; ESTIMATED MODEL; ESTIMATION TECHNIQUES; FLUID-FILLED; FORM FACTORS; MODEL-BASED; SCATTERING MODEL; SCATTERING SOURCE; TISSUE MICROSTRUCTURES; TISSUE MODELING; TISSUE SAMPLES; ULTRASONIC BACKSCATTER ANALYSIS; ULTRASOUND SIMULATION;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; ELECTROSTATIC DEVICES; ELECTROSTATIC DISCHARGE; ESTIMATION; MICROSTRUCTURE; SCATTERING; SPHERES; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TISSUE; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS; ULTRASONICS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; FIBROADENOMA; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMPEDANCE PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; FIBROADENOMA; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; PLETHYSMOGRAPHY, IMPEDANCE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 79958000079     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2011.2108308     Document Type: Article

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