Clinical utility of contrast-enhanced three-dimensional ultrasound imaging with Sonazoid: Findings on hepatocellular carcinoma lesions

European Journal of Radiology

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 425-431

  Luo, Wen ^a,b   Numata, Kazushi ^a   Morimoto, Manabu ^a   Nozaki, Akito ^a   Nagano, Yasuhiko ^a   Sugimori, Kazuya ^a   Zhou, Xiaodong ^b   Tanaka, Katsuaki ^a  

^a YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^b FOURTH MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Contrast enhanced ultrasound; Diagnostic imaging; Hepatocellular carcinoma; Microbubble contrast agents; Three dimensional ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

ANATOMIC STRUCTURES; CLINICAL UTILITY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCED ULTRASOUND; CONTRAST MEDIUM; CONTRAST-ENHANCED; HEPATOCELLULAR CARCINOMA; KAPPA VALUES; LIVER TUMORS; MICROBUBBLE CONTRAST AGENTS; MULTI-DETECTORS; ORTHOGONAL PLANE; SONOGRAPHIC; SPATIAL CONFIGURATION; SPATIAL VISUALIZATION; THREE-DIMENSIONAL ULTRASONOGRAPHY; THREE-DIMENSIONAL ULTRASOUND; THREE-DIMENSIONAL ULTRASOUND IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHIC IMAGES; TUMOR VESSELS;

ACOUSTIC WAVES; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST MEDIA; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ONCOLOGY; RESONANCE; TOMOGRAPHY; TUMORS; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; ULTRASONICS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

PERFLUBUTANE;

ADULT; AGED; ANATOMY; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER TUMOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; FERRIC COMPOUNDS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; IRON; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; OXIDES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 70449658296     PISSN: 0720048X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejrad.2008.09.003     Document Type: Article

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