Medical Engineering & Physics
Volume 30, Issue 8 , Pages 1013-1019 , October 2008

Lateral exploration strategy for differentiating the stiffness ratio of an inclusion in soft tissue

  • Ping-Lang Yen

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Automation Technology, National Taipei University of Technology, No. 1, Section 3, Chung-Hsiao East Road, Taipei 106, Taiwan
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +886 2 27712171x4324.
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  • Dar-Ren Chen

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgery, ChangHua Christian Hospital, ChangHua 500, Taiwan
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  • Kun-Tu Yeh

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgical Pathology, ChangHua Christian Hospital, ChangHua 500, Taiwan
    • ,
  • Pei-Yi Chu

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgical Pathology, ChangHua Christian Hospital, ChangHua 500, Taiwan

Received 25 May 2007 ,Revised 31 March 2008 ,Accepted 2 April 2008.

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doi: 10.1016/j.medengphy.2008.04.002

Medical Engineering & Physics
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