The interior structure of breast microcalcifications assessed with micro computed tomography

Acta Radiologica

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 592-596

  Gufler, Hubert ^a,b   Wagner, Sabine ^b   Franke, Folker Ernst ^a  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Breast imaging; Micro CT; Microcalcifications; Structure analysis

Indexed keywords

BENIGN TISSUES; BREAST BIOPSIES; BREAST CANCER; BREAST IMAGING; BREAST LESION; BREAST MICROCALCIFICATIONS; CLUSTERED MICROCALCIFICATIONS; DESCRIPTORS; FINE STRUCTURES; HIGH RESOLUTION; INTERIOR STRUCTURE; MICRO CT; MICROCALCIFICATIONS; MICROCOMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; REGION OF INTEREST; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGES; VOXEL SIZE;

BIOPSY; CALCIFICATION (BIOCHEMISTRY); MAMMOGRAPHY; MORPHOLOGY; TISSUE; TOMOGRAPHY; VISUALIZATION;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST TUMOR; CALCINOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MICRO-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; NEEDLE BIOPSY; PATHOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VACUUM;

ADULT; AGED; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CALCINOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MIDDLE AGED; VACUUM; X-RAY MICROTOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 80053078357     PISSN: 02841851     EISSN: 16000455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/ar.2011.100489     Document Type: Article

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