Noninvasive quantitative measurement of tissue blood flow in hepatocellular carcinoma using xenon-enhanced computed tomography

Digestive Diseases and Sciences

Volumn 48, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 1510-1516

  Shimizu, Junzo ^e   Oka, H ^b   Dono, Keizo ^a   Sakon, Masato ^a   Takamura, Manabu ^e   Murakami, Takamichi ^a   Hayashi, Shouho ^a   Nagano, Hiroaki ^a   Nakamori, Shoji ^a   Umeshita, Koji ^a   Sase, Shigeru ^f   Gotoh, Mitsukazu ^d   Wakasa, Kenichi ^c   Nakamura, Hironobu ^a   Monden, Morito ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^b Moriguchi Keijinkai Hospital   (Japan)

^c Osaka Prefecture University   (Japan)

^d FUKUSHIMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e SAKAI MUNICIPAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^f Anzai Medical Co Ltd   (Japan)

Author keywords

Functional imaging; Hepatic blood flow; Hepatocellular carcinoma; Xenon enhanced CT

Indexed keywords

XENON;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER CYTODIAGNOSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LIVER; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER TUMOR; MALE; PORTAL VEIN BLOOD FLOW; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TISSUE SECTION;

ADMINISTRATION, INHALATION; AGED; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED;

EID: 0041699963     PISSN: 01632116     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1024815922332     Document Type: Article

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