Ultrasound evaluation of liver fibrosis: Preliminary experience with acoustic structure quantification (ASQ) software;Valutazione ecografica della fibrosi epatica: esperienza preliminare con acoustic structure quantification (ASQ)

Radiologia Medica

Volumn 118, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 995-1010

  Ricci, Paolo ^a   Marigliano, Chiara ^a   Cantisani, Vito ^a   Porfiri, Andrea ^a   Marcantonio, Andrea ^a   Lodise, Pietro ^a   D'Ambrosio, Ugo ^a   Labbadia, Giancarlo ^a   Maggini, Elena ^a   Mancuso, Ester ^a   Panzironi, Giovanna ^a   Di Segni, Mattia ^a   Furlan, Caterina ^a   Masciangelo, Raffaele ^b   Taliani, Gloria ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Acoustic structure quantification; Fibroscan; Liver fibrosis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; BIOPSY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; ECHOGRAPHY; ELASTOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VIROLOGY; ARTICLE; METHODOLOGY;

ADULT; AGED; BIOPSY; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; HEPATITIS B, CHRONIC; HEPATITIS C, CHRONIC; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER FUNCTION TESTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84890310780     PISSN: 00338362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11547-013-0940-0     Document Type: Article

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