Comparison between tissue harmonic imaging and liver-specific late-phase contrast-enhanced pulse-inversion imaging in the detection of hepatocellular carcinoma and liver metastasis

Radiation Medicine - Medical Imaging and Radiation Oncology

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 90-97

  Rabenandrasana, Hajasoa Alain ^a   Furukawa, Akira ^a   Furuichi, Kenji ^a   Yamasaki, Michio ^a   Takahashi, Masashi ^a   Murata, Kiyoshi ^a  

^a SHIGA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Contrast material; Harmonics techniques; Hepatocellular carcinoma; Metastasis; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

SHU 508;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER METASTASIS; LUNG NODULE; MALE; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY;

AGED; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYSACCHARIDES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 2442713706     PISSN: 02882043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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