Inter- and Intra-Operator Reliability and Repeatability of Shear Wave Elastography in the Liver: A Study in Healthy Volunteers

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 950-955

  Hudson, John M ^a,c   Milot, Laurent ^b   Parry, Craig ^b   Williams, Ross ^c   Burns, Peter N ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^c Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre   (Canada)

Author keywords

Intra class correlation coefficient; Liver imaging; Reliability; Repeatability; Reproducibility; Shear wave elastography; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ELASTIC MODULI; MEDICAL IMAGING; RELIABILITY; ULTRASONICS;

CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; LIVER IMAGING; REPEATABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITIES; SHEAR WAVE ELASTOGRAPHY;

SHEAR WAVES;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; ELASTOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEPATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEASUREMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RELIABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SHEAR WAVE ELASTOGRAPHY; VOLUNTEER; YOUNG MODULUS;

EID: 84877131163     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: 1879291X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2012.12.011     Document Type: Article

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