Mapping microvasculature with acoustic angiography yields quantifiable differences between healthy and tumor-bearing tissue volumes in a rodent model

Radiology

Volumn 264, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 733-740

  Gessner, Ryan C ^a   Aylward, Stephen R ^b   Dayton, Paul A ^a  

^a Biomedical Research Imaging Center   (United States)

^b KITWARE INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC ANGIOGRAPHY; ALGORITHM; ANGIOGRAPHY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL PARAMETERS; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FIBROSARCOMA; IMAGE QUALITY; MICROVASCULAR TORTUOSITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TUMOR VASCULARIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER;

ANIMALS; CONTRAST MEDIA; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; FIBROSARCOMA; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MICROBUBBLES; MICROCIRCULATION; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 84865416760     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.12112000     Document Type: Article

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