Sonographic shift of hypervascular liver tumor on blood pool harmonic images with definity: Time-related changes of contrast-enhanced appearance in rabbit VX2 tumor under extra-low acoustic power

European Journal of Radiology

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 60-65

  Maruyama, Hitoshi ^a   Matsutani, Shoichi ^a   Saisho, Hiromitsu ^a   Kamiyama, Naohisa ^b   Mine, Yoshitaka ^b   Hirata, Takuya ^c   Sasamata, Masao ^c  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOSHIBA MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION   (Japan)

^c ASTELLAS PHARMA INC   (Japan)

Author keywords

Contrast agent; Definity; Liver; Low MI (mechanical index); Ultrasound; VX2 tumor

Indexed keywords

BLOOD; DIAGNOSIS; LIVING SYSTEMS STUDIES; TUMORS;

CONSTRAST AGENT; DEFINITY; LIVER; LOW MI (MECHANICAL INDEX); VX2 TUMOR;

ULTRASONICS;

CONTRAST MEDIUM; PERFLUTREN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ECHOGRAPHY; LIVER ANGIOGRAPHY; LIVER HISTOLOGY; LIVER TUMOR; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RABBIT; RADIATION DOSE; RADIODIAGNOSIS; TUMOR VASCULARIZATION; ULTRASOUND;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMALS; CONTRAST MEDIA; FLUOROCARBONS; HEPATIC ARTERY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIVER; LIVER NEOPLASMS, EXPERIMENTAL; RABBITS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 24944581687     PISSN: 0720048X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejrad.2005.04.004     Document Type: Article

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