Ultrasonographic tissue quantifi cation of the breast using acoustic radiation force impulse technology: Phantom study and clinical application

Japanese Journal of Radiology

Volumn 29, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 598-603

  Tozaki, Mitsuhiro ^a   Saito, Masahiro ^b   Joo, Chanwoong ^b   Yamaguchi, Miki ^a   Isobe, Sachiko ^a   Ogawa, Yukari ^a   Homma, Kanako ^a   Fukuma, Eisuke ^a  

^a KAMEDA MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^b Marketing Division   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acoustic radiation force impulse; Breast neoplasm; Phantom study; Tissue quantifi cation; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC RADIATION FORCE IMPULSE TECHNOLOGY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST; BREAST CANCER; BREAST LESION; BREAST MUCINOUS CARCINOMA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECHOMAMMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTRADUCTAL CARCINOMA; MUCINOUS CARCINOMA; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION ABSORPTION; RADIATION DEPTH DOSE; RADIATION PROCESSING; RADIOLOGY; SHEAR FLOW; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER; BREAST TUMOR; ECHOGRAPHY; ELASTOGRAPHY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TRANSDUCER;

ADULT; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, MAMMARY;

EID: 81855212645     PISSN: 18671071     EISSN: 1867108X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11604-011-0591-9     Document Type: Article

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