Color and power doppler US for diagnosing carpal tunnel syndrome and determining its severity: A quantitative image processing method

Radiology

Volumn 261, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 499-506

  Ghasemi Esfe, Ahmad Reza ^a   Khalilzadeh, Omid ^a   Vaziri Bozorg, Seyed Mehran ^a   Jajroudi, Mahdie ^a   Shakiba, Madjid ^a   Mazloumi, Mehdi ^a   Rahmani, Maryam ^a  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; ELECTRODIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE PROCESSING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POWER DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VASCULARIZATION;

ADULT; AGED; CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ELECTRODIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; MIDDLE AGED; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR;

EID: 80054782414     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.11110150     Document Type: Article

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