Abstracts tagged "rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and ultrasonography"

Abstract Number: 234 • 2013 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
The Power Doppler Modalities Of 5 Ultrasound Machines Perform Very Differently, Ascertained By a Microvessel Flow Phantom
David F. Ten Cate¹, Jolanda J. Luime², Myrthe van der Ven², Johanna M.W. Hazes², Klazina Kooiman³, Nico De Jong³ and Johannes G. Bosch³, ¹Department of Rheumatology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands, ²Rheumatology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands, ³Biomedical Engineering, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Background/Purpose: In many patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) subclinical disease activity can be detected with ultrasound (US), especially using power Doppler US (PDUS).[1-3] However, in…