Acoustic Radiation Force Impulse-Imaging for the evaluation of the thyroid gland: A limited patient feasibility study

Ultrasonics

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 69-74

  Friedrich Rust, Mireen ^a   Romenski, Olga ^a   Meyer, Gesine ^a   Dauth, Nina ^a   Holzer, Katharina ^a   Grünwald, Frank ^a   Kriener, Susanne ^a   Herrmann, Eva ^b   Zeuzem, Stefan ^a   Bojunga, Joerg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL FRANKFURT   (Germany)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

ARFI; Radionuclide scanning; RTE; Sonography; Thyroid cancer

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC PULSE; ACOUSTIC RADIATION FORCE; ARFI; ELASTOGRAPHY; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; LINEAR TRANSDUCERS; MECHANICAL EXCITATIONS; PAPILLARY CARCINOMA; POWER DOPPLER; RADIONUCLIDE SCANNING; REAL-TIME ELASTOGRAPHY; REFERENCE METHOD; RTE; SHEAR WAVE VELOCITY; SIEMENS; THYROID CANCERS; THYROID GLANDS; THYROID NODULE; THYROID TISSUE;

ACOUSTIC EMISSIONS; ACOUSTIC RADIATORS; ACOUSTIC WAVE PROPAGATION; ACOUSTIC WAVE TRANSMISSION; PLANNING; RADIOISOTOPES; SHEAR WAVES; TISSUE; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONICS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

SHEAR FLOW;

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; ECHOGRAPHY; ELASTOGRAPHY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEEDLE BIOPSY; PAPILLARY CARCINOMA; PATHOLOGY; SCINTISCANNING; THYROID NODULE; THYROID TUMOR; TRANSDUCER;

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOPSY, FINE-NEEDLE; CARCINOMA, PAPILLARY; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; THYROID NEOPLASMS; THYROID NODULE; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER;

EID: 80054700460     PISSN: 0041624X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultras.2011.06.012     Document Type: Article

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