Effect of color Doppler system on the twinkling sign associated with urinary tract calculi

Journal of Clinical Ultrasound

Volumn 27, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 433-439

  Aytaç, Suat Kemal ^a   Özcan, Hasan ^a  

^a ANKARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Artifact; Color Doppler ultrasonography; Twinkling sign; Urinary tract calculi

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BLOOD FLOW; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; FEMALE; GRAY SCALE ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TECHNOLOGY; UROLITHIASIS;

ARTIFACTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; URINARY CALCULI;

EID: 0032836761     PISSN: 00912751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0096(199910)27:8<433::AID-JCU4>3.0.CO;2-1     Document Type: Article

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