X-ray Coherent Scatter Imaging for Intra-operative Margin Detection in Breast Conserving Surgeries

X-ray Coherent Scatter Imaging for Intra-operative Margin Detection in Breast Conserving Surgeries

<p>One of the challenges facing clinical practice today is intra-operative margin detection in breast conserving surgeries (BCS) or lumpectomy procedures. When a surgeon removes a breast tumor from a patient during a BCS procedure, the surgically excised tissue specimen is examined to see wh...

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Main Author: Lakshmanan, Manu Nachiappan
Other Authors: Kapadia, Anuj J
Published: 2015
Subjects:
Medical imaging
Biomedical engineering
Engineering
breast cancer
coded apertures
coherent scatter
lumpectomy
margin detection
x-ray imaging
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10161/11393

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http://hdl.handle.net/10161/11393

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