Imaging techniques in pancreatic tumors

Expert Review of Medical Devices

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 257-273

  Donofrio, Mirko ^a   Gallotti, Anna ^a   Pozzi Mucelli, Roberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Contrast enhanced ultrasound; Endoscopic ultrasound; Fine needle aspiration; Intraoperative ultrasonography; Magnetic resonance imaging; Pancreas; Pancreatic cystic tumors; Pancreatic solid tumors; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; GADOLINIUM; SONOVUE;

ACOUSTIC RADIATION FORCE IMPULSE IMAGING; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; CANCER STAGING; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CYSTADENOMA; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; GOLD STANDARD; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING SYSTEM; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAGNETIC RESONANCE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; MINIMALLY INVASIVE PROCEDURE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PANCREAS BIOPSY; PANCREAS CANCER; PANCREAS CARCINOMA; PANCREAS CYST; PANCREAS TUMOR; PANCREATOGRAPHY; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; PEROPERATIVE ECHOGRAPHY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REVIEW; SOLID TUMOR; ULTRASOUND SCANNER; VIRTUAL REALITY;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MALE; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 77949354655     PISSN: 17434440     EISSN: 17452422     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/erd.09.67     Document Type: Review

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