Noninvasive evaluation of liver fibrosis using real-time tissue elastography and transient elastography (FibroScan)

Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 403-410

  Meng, Fankun ^a   Zheng, Ying ^a   Zhang, Qi ^b   Mu, Xiaojie ^a   Xu, Xiaoluan ^a   Zhang, Haiying ^a   Ding, Lei ^a  

^a CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HITACHI LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chronic hepatitis B; FibroScan; Gastrointestinal ultrasound; Liver fibrosis; Real time tissue elastography

Indexed keywords

BIOPSY; FORECASTING; HIGHER ORDER STATISTICS; LINEAR REGRESSION; MEDICAL IMAGING; STIFFNESS; TISSUE;

CHRONIC HEPATITIS B; DIAGNOSTIC PERFORMANCE; ELASTOGRAPHY; FIBROSCAN; LIVER FIBROSIS; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC CURVES; STEPWISE MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSION; TRANSIENT ELASTOGRAPHY;

TISSUE ENGINEERING;

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; CHRONIC HEPATITIS B; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SYSTEM; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; ELASTOGRAPHY; EVALUATION STUDY; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; LIVER; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; HEPATITIS B, CHRONIC; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIVER; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84923791480     PISSN: 02784297     EISSN: 15509613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7863/ultra.34.3.403     Document Type: Article

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