Automated sonographic evaluation of testicular perfusion

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 51, Issue 14, 2006, Pages 3419-3432

  Thierman, Jonathan S ^a,f   Clement, Gregory T ^b,f   Kalish, Leslie A ^c,f   O'Kane, Patrick L ^d   Frauscher, Ferdinand ^e   Paltiel, Harriet J ^c,f  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^f HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CONTRAST MEDIA; CURVE FITTING; DATA REDUCTION; FUNCTION EVALUATION;

CONTRAST-ENHANCED ULTRASOUND; PULSE INVERSION; TESTICULAR PERFUSION; ULTRASOUND IMAGING;

ULTRASONICS;

MICROSPHERE; PERFLUTREN;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; COMPUTER; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CURVE FITTING; DRUG SCREENING; ECHOGRAPHY; INFORMATION; ISCHEMIA; ISOTOPE LABELING; NONHUMAN; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIATION SCATTERING; READING; STANDARD; TESTIS;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; AUTOMATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTRAST MEDIA; ECHOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PERFUSION; RABBITS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; TESTIS;

EID: 33745842610     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/51/14/010     Document Type: Article

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