Tissue harmonic imaging in the evaluation of acute pancreatitis

Australasian Radiology

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 117-122

  Garg, Mandeep ^a   Sandhu, Manavjit ^a,b   Sood, Bimal ^a,c   Lal, Anupam ^a   Suri, Sudha ^a   Bhasin, Deepak ^a  

^a POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

^b Toowoomba Base Hospital ^*  (India)

^c Toowoomba Hospital   (Australia)

Author keywords

Acute pancreatitis; Tissue harmonic imaging

Indexed keywords

ACUTE PANCREATITIS; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST RADIOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EVALUATION; FEMALE; GRAY SCALE ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TISSUE HARMONIC IMAGING;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MALE; PANCREATITIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 3843073221     PISSN: 00048461     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1673.2004.01270.x     Document Type: Article

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