Transcutaneous vs. Intraoperative Quantitative Ultrasound for Staging Bovine Hepatic Steatosis

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 38, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1404-1413

  Weijers, Gert ^a   Starke, Alexander ^b   Thijssen, Johan M ^a   Haudum, Alois ^b   Wohlsein, Peter ^b   Rehage, Juergen ^b   de Korte, Chris L ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

B mode; Bovine hepatic steatosis; CAUS; Intraoperative; Liver; Postprocessing; Quantitative ultrasound; Screening; Transcutaneous; Ultrasound tissue characterization

Indexed keywords

B-MODE; CAUS; HEPATIC STEATOSIS; INTRA-OPERATIVE; POSTPROCESSING; QUANTITATIVE ULTRASOUNDS; TRANSCUTANEOUS; ULTRASOUND TISSUE CHARACTERIZATION;

DIAGNOSIS; FORECASTING; GLYCEROL; LIVER; MAMMALS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SCREENING; THERMOMECHANICAL PULPING PROCESS; TISSUE;

ULTRASONICS;

TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; B SCAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAIRY CATTLE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ECHOGRAPHY; FATTY LIVER; FEMALE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIPID LIVER LEVEL; LIVER BIOPSY; NONALCOHOLIC FATTY LIVER; NONHUMAN; PEROPERATIVE ECHOGRAPHY; PHANTOM; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STAGING; TRANSCUTANEOUS ULTRASOUND;

ADIPOSITY; ANIMALS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FATTY LIVER; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 84863094444     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: 1879291X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2012.04.009     Document Type: Article

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