Pulse-inversion US imaging of testicular ischemia: Quantitative and qualitative analyses in a rabbit model

Radiology

Volumn 239, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 718-729

  Paltiel, Harriet J ^a   Kalish, Leslie A ^a   Susaeta, Ricardo A ^a   Frauscher, Ferdinand ^b   O'Kane, Patrick L ^c   Freitas Filho, Luiz G ^a  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^c THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PERFLUTREN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; ISOTOPE LABELING; KAPPA STATISTICS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE INVERSION ULTRASONOGRAPHY; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RABBIT; SPERMATIC CORD; TESTIS BLOOD FLOW; TESTIS DISEASE; TESTIS ISCHEMIA;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANIMALS; CONTRAST MEDIA; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FLUOROCARBONS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ISCHEMIA; MALE; MICROSPHERES; RABBITS; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; TESTIS; TIME FACTORS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR;

EID: 33744801112     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2393050210     Document Type: Article

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