Improved Detection of Hepatic Metastases with Contrast-enhanced Low Mechanical-index Pulse Inversion Ultrasonography During the Liver-specific Phase of Sonazoid. Observer Performance Study with JAFROC Analysis

Academic Radiology

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 798-809

  Sugimoto, Katsutoshi ^a   Shiraishi, Junji ^a   Moriyasu, Fuminori ^a   Saito, Kazuhiro ^a   Doi, Kunio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

contrast media; detection; free response receiver operating characteristic; liver metastasis; observer performance study; sonazoid; Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

PERFLUBUTANE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; B SCAN; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ECHOGRAPHY; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; JACKKNIFE TEST; LIVER METASTASIS; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGIST; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ADULT; AGED; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; FERRIC COMPOUNDS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IRON; LIVER; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OXIDES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 66649113101     PISSN: 10766332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.acra.2008.12.025     Document Type: Article

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