Quantitative lung ultrasound comet measurement: Method and initial clinical results

Blood Purification

Volumn 39, Issue 1-3, 2015, Pages 37-44

  Weitzel, William F ^a   Hamilton, James ^b   Wang, Xianglong ^a   Bull, Joseph L ^a   Vollmer, Alan ^a   Bowman, April ^a   Rubin, Jonathan ^a   Kruger, Grant H ^a   Gao, Jing ^c   Heung, Michael ^a   Rao, Panduranga ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b Epsilon Imaging   (United States)

^c WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Blood volume; Comet; Dialysis; Fluid; Hemodialysis; Lung; Ultrafiltration; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALGORITHM; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD VOLUME; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFERENCE PAPER; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEMODIALYSIS PATIENT; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; LUNG WATER COMET; MALE; OUTPATIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; RESPIRATORY TRACT PARAMETERS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; ULTRAFILTRATION; AGED; HEART STROKE VOLUME; KIDNEY; LUNG; METABOLIC DISORDER; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PILOT STUDY; PROCEDURES; PULMONARY EDEMA; RENAL INSUFFICIENCY, CHRONIC; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY;

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHMS; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD VOLUME; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY; LUNG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PILOT PROJECTS; PULMONARY EDEMA; RENAL DIALYSIS; RENAL INSUFFICIENCY, CHRONIC; STROKE VOLUME; ULTRAFILTRATION; WATER-ELECTROLYTE IMBALANCE;

EID: 84923096367     PISSN: 02535068     EISSN: 14219735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000368973     Document Type: Conference Paper

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