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Ako Itoh
Researcher at University of Tsukuba
Publications - 3
Citations - 1555
Ako Itoh is an academic researcher from University of Tsukuba. The author has contributed to research in topics: Cancer & Internal medicine. The author has an hindex of 2, co-authored 2 publications receiving 1449 citations.
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Breast disease: clinical application of US elastography for diagnosis.
Ako Itoh,Ei Ueno,Eriko Tohno,Hiroshi Kamma,Hideto Takahashi,Tsuyoshi Shiina,Makoto Yamakawa,Takeshi Matsumura +7 more
TL;DR: For assessing breast lesions, US elastography with the proposed imaging classification, which was simple compared with that of the Breast Imaging Recording and Data System classification, had almost the same diagnostic performance as conventional US.
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Diagnostic results for breast disease by real-time elasticity imaging system
Takeshi Matsumura,Satoshi Tamano,Ryuichi Shinomura,Tsuyoshi Mitake,Makoto Yamakawa,Tsuyoshi Shiina,Ako Itoh,E. Ueno +7 more
TL;DR: Several post processing algorithms to stabilize the elasticity imaging are proposed, a method for scoring its clinical usefulness is introduced, and the current status of the scoring method on breast tissue diagnosis is reported.
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Is adding vascularity and elastography adjunct to B-mode ultrasound useful in distinguishing male breast carcinoma and gynecomastia?
TL;DR: In this paper , the glandular curve was used to measure the elasticity of a glandular gland and achieved a 93.93% elasticity score, which was the highest in the world.