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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: IEEE Trans Med Imaging. 2008 Sep;27(9):1275–1287. doi: 10.1109/TMI.2008.922192

TABLE III.

Clinical Data for Six Patients

Evaluated feature Patient’s number
1 2 3 4 5 6
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Lesion dimensions, mm 10 × 8 18 × 11 16 × 13 10 × 9 14 × 16 17 × 14
Lesion cross-section area, mm2 78 180 170 74 206 171
Lesion Young’s modulus, kPa 50 25 108 75 68 123
Lesion mobility, % 21 19 7 17 12 8
Lesion shape Single peak Mult. peak Single peak Mult. peak Single peak Single peak
Young’s modulus of bulk tissue, kPa 6.7 7.0 5.7 5.6 6.9 9.5
Heterogeneity of the bulk tissue, kPa 0.30 0.05 0.71 0.44 0.41 0.56
Lesion size measured by ultrasound, mm 21 15 20 12 × 8 20 × 20 22 × 11
Patient age, years 74 17 19 60 62 52
Biopsy Benign fibrostic tissue Benign nodular adenosis Fibroadenoma Adenocarcinoma Ductal carcinoma Ductal carcinoma