Quantitative ultrasound spectral parametric maps: Early surrogates of cancer treatment response

Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 2672-2675

  Sadeghi Naini, Ali ^a,b   Falou, Omar ^a,b   Czarnota, Gregory J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER THERAPY; DATA COLLECTION; EARLY PREDICTION; LOCALLY ADVANCED BREAST CANCER; PERSONALIZED MEDICINES; PRE-TREATMENT; QUANTITATIVE IMAGING; QUANTITATIVE ULTRASOUNDS; RADIO-FREQUENCY DATUM; SALVAGE THERAPY; STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE; TEXTURAL CHARACTERISTIC; TEXTURAL FEATURE; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

CHEMOTHERAPY; DISEASES; ONCOLOGY; ULTRASONICS;

PATIENT TREATMENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST TUMOR; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED;

ADULT; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 84883022052     PISSN: 1557170X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/EMBC.2012.6346514     Document Type: Conference Paper

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