The benefits of comparing conventional sonography, real-time spatial compound sonography, tissue harmonic sonography, and tissue harmonic compound sonography of hepatic lesions

Clinical Imaging

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 11-15

  Yen, Chin Lan ^a   Jeng, Chin Ming ^a   Yang, Sien Sing ^a  

^a CATHAY GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Fatty liver; Hepatic lesions; Spatial compound sonography; Techniques; Tissue harmonic imaging

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE QUALITY; MEDICAL IMAGING; PATIENT TREATMENT; TISSUE;

FATTY LIVER; HEPATIC LESIONS; SPATIAL COMPOUND SONOGRAPHY; TISSUE HARMONIC IMAGING;

ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; FATTY LIVER; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING SYSTEM; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIVER INJURY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME ECHOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIVER DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 37349008529     PISSN: 08997071     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinimag.2007.07.002     Document Type: Article

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