Contrast-ultrasound diffusion imaging for localization of prostate cancer

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1493-1502

  Kuenen, Maarten P J ^a,b   Mischi, Massimo ^a   Wijkstra, Hessel ^a,b  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Biomedical imaging; blood vessels; cancer; parameter estimation; ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL IMAGING; BLOOD PERFUSION; CANCER; CONVECTIVE DIFFUSION EQUATIONS; CURVE AREAS; DATA SETS; DIFFUSION IMAGING; IMAGING METHOD; INTRAVASCULAR; LOCAL DENSITY; MICRO-VASCULAR CHANGES; PARAMETRIC IMAGE; PROSTATE CANCERS; QUANTITATIVE IMAGING; RANDOM WALK MODELS; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTICS; TRANSRECTAL ULTRASOUND; ULTRASOUND CONTRAST AGENT; ULTRASOUND SCANNERS;

BLOOD; BLOOD VESSELS; DIFFUSION; MEDICAL IMAGING; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; ULTRASONICS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

DISEASES;

CONTRAST MEDIUM; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; DIFFUSION; ECHOGRAPHY; FACTUAL DATABASE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PROSTATE TUMOR; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; CONTRAST MEDIA; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DIFFUSION; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ROC CURVE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 79961186981     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2011.2125981     Document Type: Article

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