Usefulness of the multimodality fusion imaging for the diagnosis and treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma

Digestive Diseases

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 580-587

  Makino, Yuki ^a   Imai, Yasuharu ^a   Igura, Takumi ^a   Ohama, Hideko ^a   Kogita, Sachiyo ^a   Sawai, Yoshiyuki ^a   Fukuda, Kazuto ^a   Ohashi, Hiroshi ^a   Murakami, Takamichi ^b  

^a IKEDA MUNICIPAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b KINKI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

CT fusion imaging; Fusion imaging; Gd EOB DTPA; Hepatocellular carcinoma; Radiofrequency ablation; Sonazoid; US fusion imaging; Volume Navigation System

Indexed keywords

COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC FUSION IMAGING SYSTEM; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFERENCE PAPER; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING EQUIPMENT; DIGITAL IMAGING AND COMMUNICATIONS IN MEDICINE; GRAY SCALE ECHOGRAPHY; IMAGING SYSTEM; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; MULTIMODALITY FUSION IMAGING SYSTEM; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERCUTANEOUS BIOPSY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME VIRTUAL SONOGRAPHY; ULTRASOUND FUSION IMAGING SYSTEM; ULTRASOUND SCANNER; VOLUME NAVIGATION SYSTEM;

CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; CATHETER ABLATION; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84871825922     PISSN: 02572753     EISSN: 14219875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000343070     Document Type: Conference Paper

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