Contrast-enhanced wideband harmonic imaging ultrasound (SonoVue®): A new technique for quantifying bowel wall vascularity in Crohn's disease

Scandinavian Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 40, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 985-991

  Kratzer, Wolfgang ^a,b   Schmidt, Stefan A ^a   Mittrach, Christoph ^a   Haenle, Mark M ^a   Mason, Richard A ^a   Von Tirpitz, Christian ^a   Pauls, Sandra ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ULM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bowel wall vascularity; Contrast enhancement; Crohn's disease; Pulse inversion ultrasound; SonoVue ; Wideband harmonic imaging

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; SONOVUE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLON CROHN DISEASE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INTESTINE WALL; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PILOT STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ULTRASOUND; ULTRASOUND SCANNER; VASCULARIZATION;

ADULT; CROHN DISEASE; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; ILEITIS; ILEUM; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHOSPHOLIPIDS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SULFUR HEXAFLUORIDE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER;

EID: 23644436148     PISSN: 00365521     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00365520510015818     Document Type: Article

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