Improved characterisation of focal liver tumours: Dynamic power Doppler imaging using NC100100 echo-enhancer

European Journal of Ultrasound

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 95-104

  Ramnarine, Kumar V ^a   Kyriakopoulou, Konstantina ^b   Gordon, Paul ^c   McDicken, Norman W ^a   McArdle, Colin S ^a   Leen, Edward ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b GLASGOW ROYAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

^c ALTANA PHARMA AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Blood supply; Contrast media; Liver neoplasm; Power Doppler studies; Quantitative ultrasonography; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ECHO CONTRAST MEDIUM; NC 100100;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; DOSE RESPONSE; HEMANGIOMA; HUMAN; LIVER INJURY; LIVER METASTASIS; LIVER PARENCHYMA; LIVER TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUMOR VASCULARIZATION;

ADULT; AGED; CONTRAST MEDIA; FERRIC COMPOUNDS; HEMANGIOMA; HUMANS; IRON; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MIDDLE AGED; OXIDES; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER;

EID: 0034434455     PISSN: 09298266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0929-8266(00)00074-4     Document Type: Article

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