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American Journal of Roentgenology, Vol 157, 975-980, Copyright © 1991 by American Roentgen Ray Society

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Detection of renal stones with real-time sonography: effect of transducers and scanning parameters

C Kimme-Smith, RR Perrella, LP Kaveggia, S Cochran and EG Grant
Department of Radiology, University of California, Los Angeles, School of Medicine 90024.

Three experiments with a variety of transducers and scanning parameters were designed to investigate if renal stones could be detected with greater certainty by using particular transducers or scanning parameters. First, the lateral resolution, derived from the -6-dB size of the beam profile, was measured at various depths for five transducers commonly used for renal sonography. Second, an in vitro test object was constructed from bovine liver, porcine kidneys, and two renal calculi to access gray-scale map effects on shadow visibility before and after storage in the digital scan converter. The third experiment combined 15 lithotripsy patients with known renal stones with 16 patients in whom the results of renal sonography and other radiographic procedures suggested renal calculi. The group of 15 patients was scanned several times with the transducers and gray-scale maps studied earlier, and the group of 16 patients was scanned only with one transducer and one gray-scale map. On radiographs, 12 of the 16 patients did not have renal calculi. Sonograms of the test object showed that low-contrast images were best for detection of posterior shadows. Three radiologists interpreted the 31 sonograms with a sensitivity of 81% and a specificity of 86% for detecting renal stones. For the 15 cases of renal stones scanned with a variety of transducers, the three radiologists found that annular-array transducers depicted stone shadowing with less ambiguity than mechanical sector transducers did 81% of the time.
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