Detecting hepatic steatosis using ultrasound-induced thermal strain imaging: An ex vivo animal study

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 881-895

  Mahmoud, Ahmed M ^a,b   Ding, Xuan ^a,c,d   Dutta, Debaditya ^a   Singh, Vijay P ^a   Kim, Kang ^a,c,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^c University of Pittsburgh   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

fatty liver disease; obese mouse; ultrasound thermal strain

Indexed keywords

FATTY LIVER DISEASE; LINEAR ARRAY TRANSDUCERS; NON-INVASIVE DIAGNOSTICS; OBESE MICE; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC CURVES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THERMAL STRAIN; THERMAL STRAIN IMAGING;

HEATING; HISTOLOGY; IMAGING SYSTEMS; LIPIDS; MAMMALS; NONINVASIVE MEDICAL PROCEDURES; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS; ULTRASONICS;

DISEASES;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ECHOGRAPHY; FATTY LIVER; IMAGE PROCESSING; LIVER; METHODOLOGY; MOUSE; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; TEMPERATURE;

ANIMALS; FATTY LIVER; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIVER; MICE; ROC CURVE; TEMPERATURE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 84893828907     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/59/4/881     Document Type: Article

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