Two-Dimensional Ultrasound Measurement of Thyroid Gland Volume: A New Equation with Higher Correlation with 3-D Ultrasound Measurement

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 56-63

  Ying, Michael ^a   Yung, Dennis M C ^a   Ho, Karen K L ^a  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Equation; Thyroid gland; Ultrasound; Volume

Indexed keywords

ERROR ANALYSIS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PATIENT MONITORING; TWO DIMENSIONAL; ULTRASONICS;

ANTEROPOSTERIOR (AP); CRANIOCAUDAL (CC); THYROID GLANDS; ULTRASOUND THYROID VOLUME;

HORMONES;

ACCURACY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; ORGAN SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; THYROID GLAND; THYROID NODULE; THYROID WEIGHT; ULTRASOUND;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; THYROID GLAND; THYROID NODULE; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE;

EID: 37049012667     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2007.06.016     Document Type: Article

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