A sensitive new indicator for diagnostics of ovarian malignancy, based on the Doppler velocity spectrum

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 295-302

  Shaharabany, Yodfat ^a   Akselrod, Solange ^a   Tepper, Ronnie ^b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b MEIR MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Doppler flow images; Image processing; Malignancy evaluation; Ovarian masses; Velocity spectrum

Indexed keywords

DOPPLER EFFECT; GYNECOLOGY; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TUMORS; ULTRASONICS; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

OVARIAN MALIGNANCY; PULSATILITY INDEX (PI); RESISTANCE INDEX (RI);

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIASTOLE; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGING SYSTEM; OVARY CARCINOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VELOCITY;

AGED; ALGORITHMS; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MIDDLE AGED; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; ROC CURVE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER;

EID: 1842507486     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2003.10.024     Document Type: Article

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