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Background, Motivation and Objective Thyroid cancer management is a complicated clinical problem due to the high prevalence of thyroid nodules in the general population and the relatively low prevalen
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Departamento de Ingeniería, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, San Miguel, Lima, Peru
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Background, Motivation and Objective Thyroid cancer management is a complicated clinical problem due to the high prevalence of thyroid nodules in the general population and the relatively low prevalence of cancer in this gland. Fine-needle aspiration biopsy remains the current gold standard for the diagnosis of thyroid cancer, and therefore there is a need to develop non-invasive tools that aid in the identification of malignant thyroid tissues. Quantitative ultrasound imaging using backscatter coefficients (BSCs) has shown potential to characterize thyroid tissues in rodent models ex vivo. As an initial step towards the goal of thyroid cancer diagnosis on a clinical setting, in this study the estimation of BSCs from healthy human thyroids in vivo was performed.
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