Tissue harmonic and contract-specific imaging: Back to gray scale in ultrasound

European Radiology

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 151-165

  Lencioni, Ricardo ^a   Cioni, Dania ^a   Bartolozzi, Carlo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Tissue harmonic imaging; Ultrasound contrast agents; Ultrasound technology

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ABDOMEN; ACOUSTICS; ANATOMY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING SYSTEM; LIVER DISEASE; LIVER INJURY; MICROCIRCULATION; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TISSUE PERFUSION; CYST; KIDNEY; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER TUMOR; METHODOLOGY; PHYSICS;

CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; CONTRAST MEDIA; CYSTS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; KIDNEY; LIVER NEOPLASMS; PHYSICS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 0036357755     PISSN: 09387994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s003300101022     Document Type: Review

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