Better breast cancer detection.

X-rays go digital, computers read film, and chemicals mark tumors, but will these new technologies make it in the clinic? The imaging technologies considered for breast cancer include film-screen mammography, full field digital mammography, ultrasound, magnetic resonance imaging, scintimammography,...

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Publicado en:	IEEE spectrum 38, 5 (2001).
Autor Principal:	Moore, S.K
Formato:	Artigo
Idioma:	English
Subjects:	Hall-effect imaging. X-rays. Breast cancer detection. Chemicals. Computer aided detection. Elastography. Electric potential measurement. Electrical impedance imaging. Film-screen mammography. Full field digital mammography. Imaging technologies. Magnetic resonance imaging. Magnetic resonance spectroscopy. Magneto-mammography. Microwave imaging. Novel ultrasound techniques. Optical imaging. Positron emission tomography. Scintimammography. Thermoacoustic computed tomography. Thermography. Tumors. Ultrasound.