Pseudoenhancement within the local ablation zone of hepatic tumors due to a nonlinear artifact on contrast-enhanced ultrasound

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 194, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 653-659

  Yu, Hojun ^a   Jang, Hyun Jung ^a   Kim, Tae Kyoung ^a   Khalili, Korosh ^a   Williams, Ross ^b   Lueck, Gord ^b   Hudson, John ^c   Burns, Peter N ^b,c  

^a TORONTO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Contrast enhanced ultrasound; Hepatocellular carcinoma; Microbubbles; Radiofrequency ablation; Ultrasound artifact

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; LIVER TUMOR; PARENCHYMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSDUCER; TUMOR RECURRENCE; ULTRASOUND;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARTIFACTS; CATHETER ABLATION; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; FLUOROCARBONS; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 77749252534     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.09.3109     Document Type: Article

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