Three-dimensional thermoacoustic imaging for early breast cancer detection

Medical Physics

Volumn 39, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 6738-6744

  Ji, Zhong ^a   Lou, Cunguang ^a   Yang, Sihua ^a   Xing, Da ^a  

^a SOUTH CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

breast model; dielectric properties; early breast cancer; microcalcification; microwave induced thermoacoustic tomography

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES; DISEASES; MICROWAVES; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; THERMOACOUSTICS; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; TOMOGRAPHY; TUMORS;

ABSORPTION CO-EFFICIENT; EARLY BREAST CANCER; EARLY-STAGE BREAST CANCER; MICROCALCIFICATIONS; PARALLEL DATA ACQUISITION; THERMOACOUSTIC IMAGING; THERMOACOUSTIC TOMOGRAPHY; THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D) IMAGE;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 84868540408     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4757923     Document Type: Article

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