Correlation Between Twinkling Artifact and Color Doppler Carrier Frequency: Preliminary Observations in Renal Calculi

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 38, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1534-1539

  Gao, Jing ^a   Hentel, Keith ^a   Rubin, Jonathan M ^b  

^a NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HOSPITALS   (United States)

Author keywords

Color Doppler; Intrarenal vascular abnormality; Renal calculus; Twinkling artifact

Indexed keywords

CARRIER FREQUENCY; COLOR DOPPLER; COLOR DOPPLER SONOGRAPHY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; FREQUENCY-DEPENDENT; RENAL CALCULI; TWINKLING ARTIFACT; VASCULAR ABNORMALITIES;

BIOMINERALIZATION; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; PATHOLOGY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

DOPPLER EFFECT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLOR DOPPLER CARRIER FREQUENCY; COLOR DOPPLER TWINKLING ARTIFACT; COLOR PIXEL; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING AND DISPLAY; MALE; NEPHROLITHIASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; ULTRASOUND SCANNER;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARTIFACTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY CALCULI; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR;

EID: 84864584057     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: 1879291X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2012.04.011     Document Type: Article

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