Update on abdominal imaging: Contrast enhanced ultrasonography

Journal Belge de Radiologie

Volumn 90, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 497-502

  Puttemans, Th ^a  

^a Clinique Saint Pierre of Ottignies   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Contrast media Abdomen; Ultrasound (US); US

Indexed keywords

ALBUNEX; CONTRAST MEDIUM; PERFLUTREN; SHU 508; SONOVUE;

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ACOUSTICS; ALLERGIC REACTION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DRUG APPROVAL; DRUG SAFETY; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGING SYSTEM; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MICROBUBBLE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL DETECTION; TECHNOLOGY; VASCULAR ACCESS;

ABDOMEN; CONTRAST MEDIA; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MICROBUBBLES; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 39749122565     PISSN: 00217646     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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