Patient-specific modeling of breast biomechanics with applications to breast cancer detection and treatment

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Patient-specific modeling of breast biomechanics with applications to breast cancer detection and treatment

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There are many challenges clinicians are faced with when diagnosing and treating breast cancer. Biomechanical modeling of the breast is a field of research that aims to assist clinicians by providing a physics based approach to addressing some of these challenges. This review describes the state of the art in the field, from aiding co-location of information between various medical imaging modalities used to identify tumours; to providing the ability to predict the location of these tumors du...

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2012

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Babarenda Gamage, Thiranja / Rajagopal, Vijayaraghavan / Nielsen, Poul / Nash, Martyn

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http://hdl.handle.net/2292/35367

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