Techniques and evaluation from a cross-platform imaging comparison of quantitative ultrasound parameters in an in vivo rodent fibroadenoma model

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 60, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1386-1400

  Wirtzfeld, Lauren A ^a   Nam, Kibo ^b   Labyed, Yassin ^c   Ghoshal, Goutam ^a   Haak, Alexander ^a   Sen Gupta, Ellora ^a   He, Zhi ^c   Hirtz, Nathaniel ^d   Miller, Rita J ^a   Sarwate, Sandhya ^a   Simpson, Douglas ^c   Zagzebski, James A ^b   Bigelow, Timothy A ^c   Oelze, Michael L ^a   Hall, Timothy J ^b   O'Brien, William D ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c Iowa State University   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTER COEFFICIENTS; FREQUENCY-DEPENDENT ATTENUATION; POWER-LAW DEPENDENCES; QUANTITATIVE ULTRASOUNDS; SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCES; STATISTICAL COMPARISONS; STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE; ULTRASOUND IMAGING SYSTEMS;

BACKSCATTERING; ELECTROSTATIC DEVICES; ELECTROSTATIC DISCHARGE; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TRANSDUCERS; TUMORS; ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ESTIMATION;

ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FIBROADENOMA; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; RAT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; FIBROADENOMA; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 84880437499     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2013.2711     Document Type: Article

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