Open AccessWhole Breast Sound Speed Measurement from US Tomography Correlates Strongly with Volumetric Breast Density from Mammography
Author(s) -
Mark Sak,
Peter J. Littrup,
Rachel F. Brem,
Nebojsa Duric
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of breast imaging
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.208
H-Index - 3
eISSN - 2631-6129
pISSN - 2631-6110
DOI - 10.1093/jbi/wbaa052
Subject(s) - mammography , breast density , medicine , correlation , breast tissue , nuclear medicine , breast cancer , tomography , speed of sound , radiology , spearman's rank correlation coefficient , mammographic density , mathematics , statistics , cancer , acoustics , physics , geometry
To assess the feasibility of using tissue sound speed as a quantitative marker of breast density.