Liver volume determination by ultrasound: a feasibility study
- 1 September 1976
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in The British Journal of Radiology
- Vol. 49 (585) , 776-778
- https://doi.org/10.1259/0007-1285-49-585-776
Abstract
The feasibility and precision of an ultrasound method for determining the volume of the [human] liver was assessed using a Nuclear Enterprises B-scan machine. A relation between estimated liver volume and body weight was established, showing that liver volume can be determined with a precision of .+-. 195 cm3 (P .ltoreq. 0.05). With the standard non-grey-scale imaging technique employed there was a degree of uncertainty in deciding the liver boundaries, and this constitutes the major source of error.This publication has 7 references indexed in Scilit:
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