On the Use of Ultrasound for Tumor Detection
- 1 July 1954
- journal article
- letter
- Published by Acoustical Society of America (ASA) in The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
- Vol. 26 (4), 581
- https://doi.org/10.1121/1.1907378
Abstract
Results are reported on recent investigations on detecting brain tumors by ultrasonic scanning. It is concluded that, though compensated ultrasonograms may contain some information on brain structure, they are too sharply "noise-limited" to be of unqualified clinical value.Keywords
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