Consistency of breast density measured from the same women in four different MR scanners

Medical Physics

Volumn 39, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 4886-4895

  Chen, Jeon Hor ^a,b,c   Chan, Siwa ^d   Liu, Yi Jui ^e   Yeh, Dah Cherng ^d   Chang, Chih Kai ^b   Chen, Li Kuang ^a   Pan, Wei Fan ^e   Kuo, Chih Chen ^e   Lin, Muqing ^a   Chang, Daniel H E ^a   Fwu, Peter T ^a   Su, Min Ying ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^c CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d TAICHUNG VETERANS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^e FENG CHIA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

breast MRI; fibroglandular tissue volume; percent density

Indexed keywords

IMAGE SEGMENTATION; TISSUE;

BREAST MRI; COEFFICIENT OF VARIATION; FIBROGLANDULAR TISSUE; HIGHLY-CORRELATED; MEASURED PARAMETERS; MORPHOLOGICAL PATTERNS; SEGMENTATION METHODS; SEGMENTATION PROCESS;

SCANNING;

EID: 84864688799     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4736824     Document Type: Article

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