Quantification of tumor vascularity and flow with amplitude color Doppler sonography in an experimental model: Preliminary results

Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine

Volumn 15, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 827-833

  Meyerowitz, Colin B ^a   Fleischer, Arthur C ^a   Pickens, David R ^a   Thurman, Gary B ^b   Borowsky, Alexander D ^a   Thirsk, Graham ^c   Hellerqvist, Carl G ^b  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Advanced Technology Laboratories   (United States)

Author keywords

Quantified color Doppler sonography; Tumor vascularity and flow; Vascularity index

Indexed keywords

BLOOD VESSELS; COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; DOPPLER EFFECT; HEMODYNAMICS; ONCOLOGY; PATIENT MONITORING;

QUANTIFIED COLOR DOPPLER SONOGRAPHY; TUMOR VASCULARITY; VASCULARITY INDEX;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EXOTOXIN; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CANCER GRAFT; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; LUNG ADENOCARCINOMA; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; TUMOR BLOOD FLOW; TUMOR VASCULARIZATION;

EID: 0030561162     PISSN: 02784297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7863/jum.1996.15.12.827     Document Type: Article

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