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Color Doppler twinkling artifact in a calcified liver mass
Author(s) -
Yanik Bahar,
Conkbayir Işik,
Çakmakçi Esįn,
Hekįmoğlu Baki
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
journal of clinical ultrasound
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.272
H-Index - 61
eISSN - 1097-0096
pISSN - 0091-2751
DOI - 10.1002/jcu.20172
Subject(s) - artifact (error) , medicine , color doppler , radiology , doppler effect , ultrasound , doppler ultrasound , nuclear medicine , ultrasonography , anatomy , artificial intelligence , physics , astronomy , computer science
Twinkling artifact in color Doppler imag‐ing is related both to the presence of a strongly reflective structure and to the scanner's settings. This artifact has been described in association with calculi and various foreign bodies, but to our knowledge it has not been reported in a hepatic mass. If a calcified hepatic mass is examined with color Doppler Mapping without using spectral Doppler analysis, misinterpreted as real blood flow and lead to the erroneous of hypervascular mass. © 2005 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Clin Ultrasound 33: 474–476, 2005