Comparison Between Color Doppler Twinkling Artifact and Acoustic Shadowing for Renal Calculus Detection: An In Vitro Study

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 339-350

  Shabana, Wael ^a   Bude, Ronald O ^a   Rubin, Jonathan M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic shadowing; Renal stones; Twinkling artifact

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC SHADOWING; ACOUSTIC SHADOWS; COLOR DOPPLER; CONTRAST TO NOISES; DOPPLER; DOPPLER IMAGING; HIGH FREQUENCIES; LINEAR ARRAYS; OUT OF FOCUSES; PHILIPS; RENAL CALCULUSES; RENAL STONES; ROBUST METHODS; SCANNING FREQUENCIES; T TESTS; TO MANY; TWINKLING ARTIFACT; ULTRASOUND EXAMINATIONS; URIC ACIDS;

ACOUSTIC WAVES; ACOUSTICS; ARRAY PROCESSING; BIOMINERALIZATION; COLOR; DOPPLER EFFECT; FUNCTIONS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; ORGANIC ACIDS; PATHOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; ULTRASONICS;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE (ANOVA);

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; KIDNEY; KIDNEY BLOOD FLOW; NEPHROLITHIASIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHEEP; URIC ACID STONE;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; ARTIFACTS; GELATIN; HUMANS; KIDNEY; KIDNEY CALCULI; MODELS, ANIMAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SHEEP; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR;

EID: 58249144191     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2008.09.023     Document Type: Article

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