編者·作者·讀者

本刊可以直接使用的英文縮略語(二)

經胸超聲心動圖(transthoracic echocardiography, TTE)

經食管超聲心動圖(transesophageal echocardiography, TEE)

彩色多普勒血流顯像(color Doppler flow imaging, CDFI)

彩色多普勒能量圖(color Doppler energy, CDE)

組織速度成像(tissue velocity imaging, TVI)

應變率成像(strain rate imaging, SRI)

速度向量成像(velocity vector imaging, VVI)

脈沖多普勒(pulsed wave Doppler, PWD)

多普勒組織成像(Doppler tissue imaging, DTI)

彩色多普勒成像(color Doppler imaging, CDI)

超聲造影(contrast enhanced ultrasound, CEUS)

斑點追蹤成像(speckle tracking imaging, STI)

高強度聚焦超聲(high intensity focused ultrasound, HIFU)

機械指數(mechanical index， MI)

阻力指數(resistance index, RI)

正電子發射型計算機斷層掃描(positron emission computed tomography, PET)

單光子發射型計算機斷層掃描(single photon emission computed tomography, SPECT)

發射型計算機斷層掃描(emission computed tomography, ECT)

氟脫氧葡萄糖(fluorodeoxyglucose, FDG)

亞甲基二磷酸鹽 (Methylene diphosphonate, MDP)

N-乙酰天冬氨酸(N-acetylaspartate, NAA)

膽堿(choline, Cho)

肌酸(creatine, Cr)

置信區間(confidence interval， CI)

心電圖(electrocardiogram, ECG)

仿真內鏡(virtual endoscope, VE)

微血管密度(microvessel density, MVD)

血管內皮生長因子(vascular endothelial growth factor, VEGF)

受試者工作特性(receiver operating characteristic, ROC)

醫學數字成像和傳輸(digital imaging and communications in medicine, DICOM)

圖像存儲與傳輸系統(picture archiving and communications system, PACS)

感興趣區(region of interest, ROI)

曲線下面積(area under curve, AUC)

二維(two-dimensional, 2D)

三維(three-dimensional, 3D)

四維(four-dimensional, 4D)

世界衛生組織(World Health Organization, WHO)