Modern ultrasound technologies and their application in pediatric urinary tract imaging;Moderne ultraschalltechniken und ihre anwendungen am kindlichen harntrakt

Radiologe

Volumn 45, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1101-1111

  Darge, K ^a   Heidemeier, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

3D ultrasound; Children; Harmonic imaging; Twinkling sign; Ultrasound; Urinary tract; Voiding urosonography

Indexed keywords

ALBUNEX; CALCIUM PHOSPHATE; ECHO CONTRAST MEDIUM; ECHOVIST; SHU 508; SONOVUE; WEDDELLITE;

ARTICLE; BLADDER; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; KIDNEY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; URINARY TRACT; UROLITHIASIS; VESICOURETERAL REFLUX;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ARTIFACTS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; KIDNEY; KIDNEY CALCULI; MALE; PHOSPHOLIPIDS; SULFUR HEXAFLUORIDE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; URETERAL CALCULI; URINARY TRACT; URINATION; UROLOGIC DISEASES; VESICO-URETERAL REFLUX;

EID: 28844473214     PISSN: 0033832X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00117-005-1248-4     Document Type: Article

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