Interobserver Variability of Ultrasound Elastography in Transplant Kidneys: Correlations With Clinical-Doppler Parameters

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 4-9

  Ozkan, Fuat ^a   Yavuz, Yasemin Coskun ^a   Inci, Mehmet Fatih ^a   Altunoluk, Bulent ^a   Ozcan, Nuri ^a   Yuksel, Murvet ^a   Sayarlioglu, Hayriye ^a   Dogan, Ekrem ^a  

^a KAHRAMANMARAS SUTCU IMAM UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Doppler; Kidney; Real time elastography; Transplant; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

MEDICAL IMAGING; TRANSPLANTS; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS; ULTRASONICS;

DOPPLER; EXTERNAL STRESS; GLOMERULAR FILTRATION RATE; INTEROBSERVER AGREEMENT; INTEROBSERVER VARIABILITY; INTRACLASS CORRELATIONS; KIDNEY; LOCAL STRAINS; POSITIVE CORRELATIONS; PULSATILITY INDEX; REAL-TIME ELASTOGRAPHY; RENAL TRANSPLANT RECIPIENTS; RENAL TRANSPLANTS; RESISTIVE INDEX; SONOELASTOGRAPHY; STRAIN RATIOS; TISSUE HARDNESS; ULTRASOUND ELASTOGRAPHY;

STIFFNESS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; ELASTOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HUMAN; KIDNEY CORTEX; KIDNEY GRAFT; KIDNEY PARENCHYMA; MALE; MEDICAL PARAMETERS; OBSERVER VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSATILITY INDEX; REAL TIME SONOELASTOGRAPHY; RESISTIVE INDEX; RIGIDITY;

EID: 84870319608     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: 1879291X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2012.09.013     Document Type: Article

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