Renal transplant elasticity ultrasound imaging: Correlation between normalized strain and renal cortical fibrosis

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 39, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1536-1542

  Gao, Jing ^a   Weitzel, William ^b   Rubin, Jonathan M ^b   Hamilton, James ^c   Lee, Jun ^d   Dadhania, Darshana ^d   Min, Robert ^a  

^a NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HOSPITALS   (United States)

^c Epsilon Imaging   (United States)

^d WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Elastography; Renal cortical fibrosis; Renal transplant; Ultrasound strain

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL SENSORS; DEFORMATION; ELASTICITY; HARDNESS; MEDICAL IMAGING; TISSUE; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; ULTRASONICS;

BIOMECHANICAL PROPERTIES; ELASTOGRAPHY; QUASI-STATIC DEFORMATION; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC CURVE ANALYSIS; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC CURVES; RENAL CORTICAL FIBROSIS; RENAL TRANSPLANTS; STATISTICAL DIFFERENCES;

STRAIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELASTICITY ULTRASOUND IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGING SOFTWARE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KIDNEY ALLOGRAFT; KIDNEY CORTEX; KIDNEY FIBROSIS; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REAL TIME ECHOGRAPHY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ELASTOGRAPHY; RENAL CORTICAL FIBROSIS; RENAL TRANSPLANT; ULTRASOUND STRAIN;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ELASTIC MODULUS; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; FIBROSIS; HUMANS; KIDNEY CORTEX; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEPHROSCLEROSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84881660344     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: 1879291X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2013.04.007     Document Type: Article

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