Treatment response evaluation with three-dimensional contrast-enhanced ultrasound for liver cancer after local therapies

European Journal of Radiology

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 81-88

  Xu, Hui Xiong ^a   Lu, Ming De ^a   Xie, Xiao Hua ^a   Xie, Xiao Yan ^a   Kuang, Ming ^a   Xu, Zuo Feng ^a   Liu, Guang Jian ^a   Wang, Zhu ^a   Chen, Li Da ^a   Lin, Man Xia ^a  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Ablation; Contrast enhanced ultrasound; Hepatocellular carcinoma; Liver cancer; Three dimensional ultrasound; Treatment response

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST ENHANCED ULTRASOUND; HEPATOCELLULAR CARCINOMA; LIVER CANCER; THREE-DIMENSIONAL ULTRASOUND; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ABLATION; IMAGE QUALITY; LIVER; ULTRASONIC TRANSMISSION; ULTRASONICS;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ALCOHOL; ECHO CONTRAST MEDIUM; SONOVUE; WATER;

ABLATION THERAPY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHEMOEMBOLIZATION; CONTRAST ENHANCED ULTRASOUND; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGING SYSTEM; LIVER CANCER; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROWAVE THERAPY; NEEDLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TREATMENT RESPONSE; ULTRASOUND; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHOSPHOLIPIDS; SULFUR HEXAFLUORIDE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77954671542     PISSN: 0720048X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejrad.2009.05.006     Document Type: Article

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