Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology
Volume 35, Issue 10 , Pages 1615-1628 , October 2009

In vivo Breast Sound-Speed Imaging with Ultrasound Tomography

  • Cuiping Li

      Affiliations

    • Karmanos Cancer Institute, Detroit, MI, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress correspondence to: Cuiping Li, Karmanos Cancer Institute, 110 East Warren, Hudson-Webber Cancer Research Center, Detroit, MI 48201.
    • ,
  • Nebojsa Duric

      Affiliations

    • Karmanos Cancer Institute, Detroit, MI, USA
    • ,
  • Peter Littrup

      Affiliations

    • Karmanos Cancer Institute, Detroit, MI, USA
    • ,
  • Lianjie Huang

      Affiliations

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory

Received 9 January 2009 ,Revised 1 May 2009 ,Accepted 18 May 2009.

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