Improved contrast deep optoacoustic imaging using displacement-compensated averaging: Breast tumour phantom studies

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 56, Issue 18, 2011, Pages 5889-5901

  Jaeger, M ^a   Preisser, S ^a   Kitz, M ^a   Ferrara, D ^b   Senegas, S ^b   Schweizer, D ^b   Frenz, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b Fukuda Denshi Switzerland AG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKGROUND SIGNALS; BREAST PHANTOM; BREAST TUMOUR; DETECTABILITY; HIGHLY-CORRELATED; HUMAN BODIES; IMAGE CONTRASTS; IMAGE SERIES; IMAGING STRUCTURE; LIGHT DISTRIBUTION; LINEAR ARRAY TRANSDUCERS; OPTICAL IRRADIATION; OPTOACOUSTIC IMAGING; PHANTOM STUDIES; PULSE ECHOES; REFLECTION MODES; SIGNAL NOISE; SPECKLE TRACKING; TISSUE DEFORMATIONS; TISSUE DISPLACEMENT; TISSUE SAMPLES;

DEFORMATION;

TUMORS;

CONTRAST MEDIUM; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT;

ARTICLE; BREAST TUMOR; COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; ECHOGRAPHY; ECHOMAMMOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; PATHOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SHEAR STRENGTH; TRANSDUCER;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; OPTICAL DEVICES; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SHEAR STRENGTH; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, MAMMARY;

EID: 80052673610     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/56/18/008     Document Type: Article

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