Acoustic radiation force impulse quantification: Repeatability of measurements in selected liver segments and influence of age, body mass index and liver capsule-to-box distance

British Journal of Radiology

Volumn 85, Issue 1018, 2012, Pages

  Jaffer, Ounali S ^a   Lung, P F C ^a   Bosanac, D ^a   Patel, V M ^b   Ryan, S M ^a   Heneghan, M A ^a   Quaglia, A ^a   Sidhu, P S ^a  

^a KING S COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b ST MARY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC RADIATION FORCE IMPULSE IMAGING; ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; LIVER; LIVER CAPSULE TO BOX DISTANCE; LIVER EXAMINATION; MALE; MEASUREMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; OBSERVER VARIATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; RELIABILITY; RIGIDITY; VELOCITY;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; BODY MASS INDEX; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER; MALE; OBSERVER VARIATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84866847297     PISSN: 00071285     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1259/bjr/74797353     Document Type: Article

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