Initial experience with a steerable, phased vector array ultrasound catheter in the GI tract

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 496-499

  Norton, Ian D ^a   Bruce, Charles J ^a   Seward, James B ^a   Vazquez Sequeiros, Enrique ^a   Affi, Aboud ^a   Wiersema, Maurits J ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CATHETERIZATION; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; ECHOGRAPHY; ESOPHAGUS; EVALUATION; FEASIBILITY STUDY; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; LIVER; LIVER CIRCULATION; METHODOLOGY; NEEDLE BIOPSY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SWINE; VASCULARIZATION;

ANIMALS; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; CATHETERIZATION; ENDOSCOPY, GASTROINTESTINAL; ESOPHAGUS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; LIVER; LIVER CIRCULATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SWINE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR;

EID: 0035315799     PISSN: 00165107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/mge.2001.113280     Document Type: Article

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