Clinical Imaging
Volume 34, Issue 5 , Pages 355-360 , September 2010

Flow turbulence or twinkling artifact? A primary observation on the intrarenal color Doppler sonography

  • Jing Gao

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Department of Radiology, 525 East 68th Street, ST 8A37, New York-Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY 10065, USA. Tel.: +1 212 746 2342; fax: +1 212 746 8965.
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  • Amelia Ng
    • ,
  • Minh-Nhut Y. Dang
    • ,
  • Robert Min

Received 1 August 2009 ,Accepted 20 August 2009.

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☆ IRB Protocol No. 0903010283.

PII: S0899-7071(09)00231-9

doi: 10.1016/j.clinimag.2009.08.029

Clinical Imaging
Volume 34, Issue 5 , Pages 355-360 , September 2010

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