Better breast cancer detection.

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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Bibliographic Details
Published in:IEEE spectrum 38, 5 (2001).
Main Author: Moore, S.K
Format: Article
Language: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.