Ex vivo Study of Quantitative Ultrasound Parameters in Fatty Rabbit Livers

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 38, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 2238-2248

  Ghoshal, Goutam ^a   Lavarello, Roberto J ^b   Kemmerer, Jeremy P ^a   Miller, Rita J ^a   Oelze, Michael L ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DEL PERÚ   (Peru)

Author keywords

Attenuation coefficient; Backscatter coefficient; Envelope statistics; Fatty liver; Quantitative ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION COEFFICIENT; BACKSCATTER COEFFICIENTS; ENVELOPE STATISTICS; FATTY LIVER; QUANTITATIVE ULTRASOUNDS;

ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY; BACKSCATTERING; BIOACOUSTICS; ELECTROSTATIC DEVICES; ELECTROSTATIC DISCHARGE; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MEDICAL PROBLEMS; NUTRITION; TISSUE; ULTRASONICS;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ECHOGRAPHY; EX VIVO STUDY; FAT CONTENT; HEPATOGRAPHY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LIPID COMPOSITION; NONALCOHOLIC FATTY LIVER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RABBIT; RADIATION ATTENUATION; RADIATION SCATTERING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; FATTY LIVER; LIPIDS; LIVER; MALE; RABBITS;

EID: 84870295469     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: 1879291X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2012.08.010     Document Type: Article

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