Volume of preclinical xenograft tumors is more accurately assessed by ultrasound imaging than manual caliper measurements

Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 891-901

  Ayers, Gregory D ^a   McKinley, Eliot T ^b,c   Zhao, Ping ^a,b,c   Fritz, Jordan M ^c   Metry, Rebecca E ^c   Deal, Brenton C ^c   Adlerz, Katrina M ^c   Coffey, Robert J ^a   Manning, H Charles ^a,b,c,d  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Colorectal cancer; Preclinical mouse models; Tumor burden; Ultrasound imaging; Xenograft

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; CELL CULTURE; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASES; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MAMMALS; ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

COLORECTAL CANCER; COLORECTAL CANCER CELL; INTRACLASS CORRELATION COEFFICIENTS; MOUSE MODELS; NON-INVASIVE IMAGING; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; ULTRASOUND IMAGING; XENOGRAFT;

TUMORS;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COLORECTAL TUMOR; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; MOUSE; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; NUDE MOUSE; PATHOLOGY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TUMOR CELL LINE; XENOGRAFT;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CELL LINE, TUMOR; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MICE; MICE, NUDE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 77953009422     PISSN: 02784297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7863/jum.2010.29.6.891     Document Type: Article

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