Acoustic Radiation Force Impulse Elastography for the Evaluation of Focal Solid Hepatic Lesions: Preliminary Findings

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 202-208

  Cho, Seung Hyun ^a,b   Lee, Jae Young ^a   Han, Joon Koo ^a   Choi, Byung Ihn ^a  

^a Seoul National University Hospital   (South Korea)

^b Catholic University of Daegu   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Acoustic radiation force impulse imaging; ARFI Imaging; Elastography; Liver neoplasm; Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC RADIATION FORCE IMPULSE; ACOUSTIC RADIATION FORCE IMPULSE IMAGING; B-MODE IMAGES; CONSPICUITY; CUT-OFF VALUE; ECHOGENICITY; ELASTOGRAPHY; GROUP III; HEPATIC LESIONS; HEPATIC TUMORS; HEPATOCELLULAR; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LIVER TUMORS; MALIGNANT LESION; MEAN VALUES; POSITIVE PREDICTIVE VALUES; QUALITATIVE INFORMATION; SHEAR WAVE VELOCITY; STATISTICAL DIFFERENCES;

ACOUSTIC EMISSIONS; ACOUSTIC RADIATORS; ACOUSTIC WAVE PROPAGATION; ACOUSTIC WAVE TRANSMISSION; ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY; ACOUSTICS; FOCUSING; LIVER; ONCOLOGY; SHEAR FLOW; SHEAR WAVES; STIFFNESS; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

TUMORS;

ACOUSTIC RADIATION FORCE IMPULSE ELASTOGRAPHY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; B SCAN; BILE DUCT CARCINOMA; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DUODENUM CANCER; ELASTOGRAPHY; GALLBLADDER CANCER; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIVER CARCINOMA; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER HEMANGIOMA; LIVER METASTASIS; LIVER PARENCHYMA; LIVER TUMOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROENDOCRINE TUMOR; PANCREAS CANCER; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SHEAR FLOW; TUMOR CLASSIFICATION;

ADULT; AGED; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 74849119652     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2009.10.009     Document Type: Article

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