Imaging Techniques for Stone Disease and Methods for Reducing Radiation Exposure

Urologic Clinics of North America

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 47-57

  Lipkin, Michael E ^a   Preminger, Glenn M ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Imaging; Nephrolithiasis; Radiation; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM OXALATE; CALCIUM PHOSPHATE DIBASIC;

ABDOMINAL RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIGITAL TOMOSYNTHESIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ECHOGRAPHY; EXTRACORPOREAL LITHOTRIPSY; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; INTRAVENOUS PYELOGRAPHY; KIDNEY COLIC; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PELVIS RADIOGRAPHY; PERCUTANEOUS NEPHROLITHOTOMY; PREDICTION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY; TREATMENT PLANNING; URETEROSCOPY; URINARY TRACT OBSTRUCTION; UROGRAPHY; UROLITHIASIS;

DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMANS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION INJURIES; UROLITHIASIS;

EID: 84870213156     PISSN: 00940143     EISSN: 1558318X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ucl.2012.09.008     Document Type: Review

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