Liver fibrosis in viral hepatitis: Noninvasive assessment with acoustic radiation force impulse imaging versus transient elastography

Radiology

Volumn 252, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 595-604

  Friedrich Rust, Mireen ^a   Wunder, Katrin ^a   Kriener, Susanne ^a   Sotoudeh, Fariba ^a   Richter, Swantje ^a   Bojunga, Joerg ^a   Herrmann, Eva ^b   Poynard, Thierry ^c   Dietrich, Christoph F ^d   Vermehren, Johannes ^a   Zeuzem, Stefan ^a   Sarrazin, Christoph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL FRANKFURT   (Germany)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c PITIÉ SALPÊTRIÈRE HOSPITAL   (France)

^d CARITAS KRANKENHAUS   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC RADIATION FORCE IMPULSE IMAGING; ACOUSTICS; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGING SYSTEM; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER DISEASE; LIVER FIBROSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ULTRASOUND; VIRUS HEPATITIS; ECHOGRAPHY; ELASTOGRAPHY; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MECHANICAL STRESS; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PILOT STUDY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; HEPATITIS, VIRAL, HUMAN; HUMANS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PILOT PROJECTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STRESS, MECHANICAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70249130127     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2523081928     Document Type: Article

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