• 3D and 4D in Contrast Enhanced Ultrasound
• 3D Echocardiography
• 3D in Small Parts: Thyroid, Parathyroid and Parotids
• 3D Intra-partum Ultrasound. Does it Confer any Benefit?
• 3D Ultrasound for Hepatobiliary Disease
• 3D Ultrasound in Nephro-Urology
• 3D Ultrasound in Ob/Gyn: The Good, the Bad, the Ugly
• 3D Ultrasound of the Endometrium in Women with Post Menopausal Bleeding
• 3D Ultrasound of the Supraspinatus Tendon - A Birds Eye View
• 3D Ultrasound of the Upper Abdomen
• 3D/4D Ultrasound: Fetal Echocardiography
• A Systematic Approach to Abnormal Uterine Bleeding. Saline Infusion Sonohysterography or Outpatient Endometrial Pipelle Biopsy?
• Abdominal and Cardiac Evaluation with Sonography in Shock (ACES)
• Abdominal Ultrasound Features of Tropical Diseases
• Accreditation in Emergency Ultrasound
• Acute Scrotum
• After Outcomes Studies and Use in Statin Drug Trials, Why is Carotid IMT Not a Routine Clinical tool?
• Amniotic Fluid: Too Little, Too Much
• An Adult with Congenital Heart Disease! What you Should Know Before you Start
• An Approach to Syndromes Primarily Affecting Fetal Skeleton and Limbs: 2D & 3D
• An Evidence Based Protocol for Ultrasound Screening in Monochorionic Diamniotic Twins
• Anatomy and Pathology of the Proximal Hamstring Tendons
• Anterior Hip and Iliopsoas Apparatus Assessment
• Applications and Contrast Imaging with Micro-Ultrasound in Preclinical Cancer and Cardiovascular Research
• Applications of Subharmonic Contrast Imaging
• Assessment of Left Ventricle Filling Pressures Using Spectral Doppler Echocardiography
• Assessment of the Lateral Ankle Following Inversion Injury
• Automatic Breast Ultrasound and Computer Aided Diagnosis
• Basic Essentials of Rotator Cuff Ultrasound. Supraspinatus Tear Types and How to Look for Them
• Biomechanics - Understanding How the Musculoskeletal System Works Can Assist in Ultrasound Diagnosis
• Blood Flow in the Liver
• Breast Cancer Screening with Ultrasound
• Breast Ultrasound of DCIS. Correlation with Mammography, MRI and Pathology
• Carotid Interpretation Criteria. How to Choose What You Use
• Carotid stents and their ultrasound follow-up
• Case Studies - Congenital Heart Disease
• Changes and Challenges for Clinical Ultrasound Over the Next Decade
• Changes in Workflow Created by New Ultrasound Machines
• Chronic Venous Insufficiency and How I Test for it
• Clinical Significance of Dilated Lactiferous Ducts
• Clinically Relevant Ultrasound of the Sacrotuberous Ligament
• Complications of Radiofrequency Ablation for Hepatic Malignancies
• Contrast Enhanced Ultrasound (CEUS) in Diagnostic Imaging: Looking Back at the First Decade
• Contrast Enhanced Ultrasound for Differential Diagnosis of Renal Disease
• Contrast Enhanced Ultrasound of Pancreatic Tumours
• Contrast Enhanced Ultrasound Time Intensity Curves
• Cost-Analysis of Contrast Enhanced Ultrasound
• Current and Planned WFUMB Education Committee Projects
• Current Role of CT/MR/Duplex for Post-Operative Followup Of Aortic Endografts
• Diastolic Dysfunction
• Differences Between Point of Care and Formal Ultrasound
• Difficult Areas for Radiofrequency Ablation in the Abdomen
• Do We Need 3D Ultrasound to Scan Adnexal Masses?
• Does 3D Hydrosonography Give us Something New?
• Doppler in Pulmonary Disease
• Duct Sonography in Benign and Malignant Disease
• Dynamic Assessment of the Carpal Tunnel
• Echocardiography in Search for Cardiac Source of Emboli
• Effectiveness of the “Teaching the Teachers” Ultrasound Physician Training Program: A Summary of Three Programs
• EFSUMB Guidelines for Contrast Enhanced Ultrasound
• Elasticity in Liver and Abdominal Ultrasound
• Elastography for the Characterization of Nonpalpable Breast Lesions
• Elastography in Endoscopic Ultrasound
• Elbow Biceps Brachii and Collateral Ligament Assessment
• Emergency Echocardiography
• Endoscopic Ultrasound for Biliary Disease
• Endoscopic Ultrasound for Pancreatic Tumours
• Endoscopic Ultrasound- Past, Present and Future
• Evaluation of Ablation Efficacy of Liver Tumours Using Contrast Enhanced Ultrasound Including 3D
• Evaluation of Microvascular Physiology
• Evidence Based Benefits and Drawbacks of Breast Ultrasound in Asian Women
• Extended Field of View and 3D in the Diagnosis of Breast Pathology
• Fat-Lesion Ratio in Breast Elastography
• Fetal Cardiac Functions in Diabetic Pregnancy
• Fetal CNS - It's Not Just Ventriculomegaly
• Fetal CNS: Ultrasound Evaluation of Development Through Gestation
• Fetal Facial and Neck Anomalies
• Fetal Gastroschisis
• Fetal Neurosonography
• Fetal Spine - The Forgotten CNS
• Fetoscopic Guided Laser Therapy for Twin-to-Twin Transfusion Syndrome: Taiwan Experience
• Foot Ultrasound. What Do We Need to Know and Do?
• Functional Studies
• Gas in the Abdomen - An Important Sign in Gastrointestinal Diseases
• Genetic Ultrasound. 98% Detection Rate for Trisomy 21
• Grey Scale & Colour Doppler Findings in Mesenteric Ischemia
• Groin and Scrotal Pain
• How is IMT Performed? What Measurements are Taken?
• How to Reduce False Positive Rates in Breast Ultrasound Screening
• Hydrocolonic Sonography
• Imaging Before Carotid Intervention, What’s Enough?
• Imaging of Non-Obstetric Pain in the Pregnant Patient
• Imaging of Salivary Gland Cancer
• Impact of Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound on Diagnosis of Hepatocellular Carcinoma in Cirrhosis: A Large Series Report
• Importance of Bypass Graft Surveillance in 2009
• Incorporating Doppler as Routine in Ultrasound Examinations – It’s Time
• Interventional Ultrasound: Cases That Went Wrong
• Intraneural Ganglia
• Intrapelvic Venous Congestion Syndrome (IVCS). A New Clinical Entity to Elucidate Prostatodynia
• Introduction - A History of WFUMB’s Educational Efforts
• It's not all Tendons! Ultrasound of Ligament and Retinacular Disorders
• Knee Tendons and Ligaments. Anatomy and Pathology
• Kupffer Cell Contrast Liver Imaging
• Laparoscopic Excision of Deep Infiltrative Endometriosis. Do we Really Need to Scan These Women?
• Lesions in the Forefoot, do They Matter?
• Levator Trauma. Identification and Implications
• Limitations in the Assessment of Diastolic Function - Illustrative Examples
• Liver Abscesses - Diagnosis and Management
• Liver Transplant in Children
• Lymphosonography
• Magnetic Resonance Versus Ultrasound in Prenatal Diagnosis of Fetal Malformations
• Malignant Hepatic Tumour
• Mass Survey for Hepatocellular Carcinoma in High Risk Groups
• Measuring Whole Body Skeletal Muscle Mass - is Ultrasound an Alternative Technique
• Modern Imaging Approach to Pancreatic Tumours
• Molecular Imaging and Assessment of Angiogenesis with Contrast Ultrasound
• Musculoskeletal Ultrasound and the Athlete - A Review of Sports Specific Injuries
• Necessity for Calf Vein Duplex, for Diagnosing Isolated Calf DVT
• New Approach of Noninvasive Intracardiac Pressure Measurement
• New Doppler Techniques
• New Imaging Approaches: Have They Altered Accuracy of Vascular Diagnosis?
• Non-Invasive Evaluation of Upper Extremity Arterial Syndromes
• Occular Sonography in Children
• Optimizing the Image (2D, Colour Doppler, Power Doppler) For Evaluation of Fetal Heart
• Pathological Lead Points in Intussusception
• Perinatal Outcome in Fetuses with Extremely Large Nuchal Translucency Measurements
• Peripheral Arterial Imaging with Colour Doppler: 20 Years Later
• Polydocanol Use and Success
• Post Menopausal Bleeding. How Reliable is Transvaginal Ultrasound in Excluding Endometrial Cancer?
• Postoperative Imaging for Haemodialysis Access
• Pre - Surgical Appraisal of Shoulder Ultrasound and Follow Up on Patients
• Prevalence of DVT in the Contralateral Asymptomatic Leg
• Principles and Techniques of Intervention
• Principles of Elastography and Strain Imaging
• Prognostic Ultrasound for Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia
• Prostate 3D and Doppler
• Pulleys, Plates and Other Paraphernalia - Anatomy and Unique Injuries to Fingers
• Renal Pyramids
• Renovascular Hypertension: Role of Ultrasound & Color Doppler
• Review of the Curriculum Development Project
• Review of Transvaginal Practice in Australia
• Screening for Down Syndrome by Assessment of the Nasal Bone
• Sentinel Lymph Node Mapping
• Shoulder Ultrasound with MRI Correlation
• Shoulder Ultrasound: Beyond Supraspinatus Tears
• Significance of Incidental Ultrasound Findings in Post-Menopausal Women, to Remove or Not to Remove?
• Simplification of Balloon Mitral Valvotomy with Online Transesophageal Echocardiography
• Sonographic Measurement of Liver, Spleen and Kidney
• Sonography in Necrotizing Enterocolitis
• Sonography of Invasive Lobular Carcinoma
• Sonography of Neck Nodes
• Sonography of the Gastrointestinal Tract in Pediatrics
• Sonography of the Rectum and Anal Canal
• Sonography of the Thyroid
• Sonography of Thyroid Nodules
• Sonography of Wrist Lumps, Bumps, Nerves and Ligaments
• Sonologist and Medical Lawsuit
• Staging with Sonography
• State of the WFUMB Centers of Excellence
• Summary and Plans for Implementing the Development of an Ultrasound and Basic Radiology Curriculum and E-Learning Tools in Cooperation with Multiple Organizations
• Technical Advances and Clinical Applications of Microwave Ablations
• Tendinopathies of the Wrist and Hand
• Tendons and Bursa: Treatment Tips and Tricks
• The Antenatal Sonographic Characteristeric and the Perinatal Outcome of Fetus with Meconium Peritonitis
• The Clinical Outcome of Fetus with Prenataly Diagnosed Ebstein’s Anomaly
• The Development of Array Based Ultrasound Imaging in the 10 - 80 MHz Range
• The Diagnosis of Fetal Anomalies in the 1st Trimester
• The Fascial Net- A Whole Body Communicating Network
• The Impact of Scanning Factors on the Twinkle Artifact in Colour Doppler
• The Importance of X-Rays
• The Irregular Heart Rate. What does it Mean?
• The Posterior Interosseous Nerve - Where Have you Been All My Life?
• The Prognosis of Monochorionic Twin with Selective Intra Uterine Growth Restriction with Different Types on Umbilical Artery Doppler of the Restricted Twin
• The Role of the Sonographer in Endovenous Ablation
• The Use of 3D Ultrasound in Gynaecology. The Beginning of a New Era!
• The Utility of Real-Time Tissue Elastography for the Breast
• Training in O & G Ultrasound
• Transesophageal Echocardiographic Guidance for Closure of Atrial Septal Defect
• Transplant Kidneys. The Role of Ultrasound
• Transrectal Ultrasound of the Prostate
• Ultrasonic Techniques for Volumetric Blood Flow Measurement
• Ultrasonography Education in Bangladesh
• Ultrasound Assessment of Adhesive Capsulitis
• Ultrasound Assessment of Anterior Knee Pain
• Ultrasound Detection of Cerebral Emboli, the State of the Art
• Ultrasound Enhanced Thrombolysis
• Ultrasound Evaluation of Greater Trochanteric Pain Syndrome
• Ultrasound Evaluation of Unusual Patterns of Chronic Venous Insufficiency : A Review
• Ultrasound Flow Imaging
• Ultrasound for Right Iliac Fossa Pain
• Ultrasound Guided Ablative Techniques, Review and Future Aspects
• Ultrasound Guided Biopsy of the Breast
• Ultrasound Guided Intervention with Breast Implants
• Ultrasound Guided Percutaneous Microwave Thermal Ablation. An Effective Approach to Symptomatic Uterine Myomas
• Ultrasound Guided Percutaneous Nephrostomy
• Ultrasound Guided Tendonopathy Treatment Options
• Ultrasound Imaging of Atherosclerosis
• Ultrasound in Blunt Thoraco-abdominal Trauma
• Ultrasound in Brain Infections
• Ultrasound in Crohns Disease
• Ultrasound in Lymphoma
• Ultrasound in Native and Transplant Kidney
• Ultrasound in Paediatric Alimentary Tract
• Ultrasound in Paediatric Emergency
• Ultrasound in the Digestive Tract
• Ultrasound in the First trimester. How Safe is it?
• Ultrasound in Vesicoureteric Reflux
• Ultrasound Mediated Drug Delivery
• Ultrasound of Ankle Tendons: Anatomy, Pathology and How to Image
• Ultrasound of Entrapment Neuropathies of the Lower Extremity
• Ultrasound of Epicondylitis
• Ultrasound of Neck Masses (Non-Thyroid)
• Ultrasound of Neonatal Brain
• Ultrasound of Neonatal Hip
• Ultrasound of Renal Masses
• Ultrasound of Salivary Glands - Anatomy and Benign Conditions
• Ultrasound of Stomach
• Ultrasound of the Spine
• Update of Aortic Imaging by Ultrasound: Status and Future
• Upper Extremity Duplex for Diagnosing DVT
• Upper Limb Nerve Entrapment Syndromes
• USG of Parasitic Infestation
• Validity of Carotid Duplex Scan Performed with the Patient Seated
• Value of Contrast Enhanced Ultrasound for Protocoling Radiofrequency Ablation of Hepatocellular Carcinoma
• Value of Contrast Enhanced Ultrasound in Diagnosis of Early Hepatocellular Carcinoma
• Vascular Birthmarks in Children
• Volume Imaging in Abdomen, Can it Work?
• Why and Where Tendons Fail

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