Evaluation of virtual CT sonography for enhanced detection of small hepatic nodules: A prospective pilot study

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 194, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1272-1278

  Okamoto, Eisuke ^a   Sato, Shuichi ^a   Sanchez Siles, Alvaro A ^a   Ishine, Junichi ^a   Miyake, Tatsuya ^a   Amano, Yuji ^b   Kinoshita, Yoshikazu ^a  

^a SHIMANE UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b SHIMANE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

CT angiography; Hepatocellular carcinoma; Liver; Nodule; Real time virtual sonography; Virtual CT sonography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC SONOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER DISEASE; LIVER NODULE; LIVER PARENCHYMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NODULE ECHOGENICITY; NODULE LOCATION; NODULE SIZE; PILOT STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TUMOR VOLUME; ULTRASOUND SCANNER; VIRTUAL REALITY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PILOT PROJECTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 77951956718     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.08.2294     Document Type: Article

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