Characterization of Thyroid Cancer in Mouse Models Using High-Frequency Quantitative Ultrasound Techniques

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 39, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 2333-2341

  Lavarello, Roberto J ^a   Ridgway, William R ^b   Sarwate, Sandhya S ^b   Oelze, Michael L ^b  

^a PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DEL PERÚ   (Peru)

^b United States of America   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer diagnosis; Quantitative ultrasound; Thyroid; Tissue characterization

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; CHARACTERIZATION; DIAGNOSIS; DISEASES; ELECTROSTATIC DEVICES; ELECTROSTATIC DISCHARGE; HISTOLOGY; MAMMALS; TUMORS; ULTRASONICS;

BACKSCATTER COEFFICIENTS; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; PAPILLARY THYROID CARCINOMATA; QUANTITATIVE ULTRASOUND TECHNIQUES; QUANTITATIVE ULTRASOUNDS; STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE; THYROID; TISSUE CHARACTERIZATION;

ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; C CELL ADENOMA; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER MODEL; CANCER SUSCEPTIBILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EFFECTIVE ACOUSTIC CONCENTRATION; EFFECTIVE SCATTER DIAMETER; EX VIVO STUDY; HIGH FREQUENCY QUANTITATIVE ULTRASOUND; HIGH INTENSITY FOCUSED ULTRASOUND; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; THYROID ADENOMA; THYROID CANCER; THYROID CARCINOMA; THYROID FOLLICULAR CARCINOMA; THYROID GLAND EXAMINATION; ULTRASOUND SCANNER;

CANCER DIAGNOSIS; QUANTITATIVE ULTRASOUND; THYROID; TISSUE CHARACTERIZATION;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THYROID NEOPLASMS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 84887823597     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: 1879291X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2013.07.006     Document Type: Article

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