• A New modality in Cholangiography: Percutaneous Ultrasonic Cholangiography with SonoVue for Evaluating Dilated Biliary Tract
• A Prospective Comparison of Doppler Sonographic Parameters in the Diagnosis of Common Types of Renal Artery Stenosis
• A Short-Term Follow-Up Study of Left Ventricular Epicardial Lead Placement for Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy
• A Single-Element Ultrasonic Vessel Locator and Ablator
• Abdominal Ultrasound Measurements
• Accuracy of Ultrasound Arthrography in the Bankart Patients: Comparison with Conventional Ultrasonography
• Acoustic Investigation of Attached, Single Microbubbles
• Acoustic Radiation Force Impulse Elastography for the Evaluation of Focal Solid Hepatic Lesions: Preliminary Results
• Acoustoelastography of the Achilles Tendon: A Pilot Study Applying a New Tissue Characterization Method
• Acute Colonic Uncomplicated Diverticulitis: Clinical, Ultrasound Finding to Combine with CT in 22 Cases
• An Early Incipient and Novel Bidirectional Alteration of Myocardial Function in Coronary Artery Stenosis: Quantitative Assessment of Myocardial Regional Function with Varying Ischemic Severity by Velocity Vector Imaging
• Analysis of False-Negative Results After US-Guided 14-Gauge Core Needle Breast Biopsy
• Analysis of Neovascularization within Carotid Plaques in Patients with Ischemic Stroke using Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound
• Assessment of Antiangiogenic Therapeutics Effect in a Mice Hepatoma Model Using Contrast-Enhanced Gray-Scale Ultrasound
• Assessment of Thoracic Aortic Atherosclerosis Using Real Time 3D Transesophageal Echocardiography
• Association Between Color Doppler Vascularity Index, Angiogenesis-Related Molecules, and Clinical Outcomes in Gastric Cancer
• Atypical Causes of Lower Limb Venous Hypertension; Advanced Techniques for Ultrasound Diagnosis
• Atypical Sites of Tuberculosis in Ultrasound Practice
• Availability of Contrast Enhanced Ultrasound Using Sonazoid for the Breast Cancer Patients Treated with Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy
• Basal Phenotype (CK5 or 6) of Breast Cancer:Ultrasonographic and Mammographic Findings
• Biological Effects of Low Power Ultrasound Wave Irradiation Microbubble Contrast Agent on Rat Endothelial Progenitor Cells
• Breast Cancers Initially Detected by Hand-Held Ultrasound (HHUS): Detection Performance of Radiologists using 3D Breast US Data Obtained by a Commercially Available Automated Breast US System (ABUS)
• Burst Mode Ultrasound with Contrast Agent Injures Cardiomyocytes in Vivo
• Calcifying Tendinitis of the Rotator Cuff: is Percutaneous US-Guided Treatment More Effective than Simple Steroid Injection?
• Carotid Arterial Wave Intensity Analysis in Patients with Diabetes Mellitus
• Central Hypoechogenic Line on the Ultrasonographic Image of the Meniscus: Does It Represent a Meniscal Tear?
• Challenges and Advances in Medical Ultrasound Metrology - 100 MHz, Spatial Averaging Free Ultrasonic Hydrophone Probes for Theragnostic Applications
• Chronic Renal Dysfunction : Quantitative Diagnosis with Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasonography – Initial Experience
• Classification of Benign and Malignant Breast Tumors by Ultrasonic Nakagami Imaging
• Clinical Study of Solid Pancreatic Focal Lesions with Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound
• Clinical Trial of Microwave Ablation Combing with HAS for the Treatment of Liver Cancer
• Color Doppler Imaging Evaluation of Vertebral Artery Stenosis
• Color Doppler Sonography of Invasive Pulmonary Aspergillosis in Infants with Chronic Granulomatous Disease
• Comparative Value of 3D and Transesophageal Echocardiography in the Pre-Surgical Assessment of Patients with Mitral Regurgitation
• Comparison of Patent Foramen Ovale and Aortic Atherosclerosis in Patients with Cryptogenic Ischemic Stroke or Transient Ischemic Attack
• Comparison Study of Left Ventricular Myocardial Performance Index Measured From Quantitative Tissue Velocity Imaging Tissue Doppler Imaging and Pulsed Doppler in Fetuses
• Congenital Intrahepatic Portosystemic Venous Shunt Between Portal Vein and Hepatic Vein: Perinatal Ultrasonographic Detection and Follow-up
• Contrast Enhanced Ultrasound (CEUS) in the Assessment of Carotid Plaque Vascularization. Correlation with the Vessel Density in the Immunohistochemical Study
• Contrast Enhanced Ultrasound for Imaging of Adrenal Masses
• Contrast Enhanced Ultrasound in the Characterisation of Renal Masses
• Contrast US-Guided RF Ablation of Prostate: Laboratory and Clinical Experiences
• Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound (CEUS) with Sonazoid in the Assessment of Anti-Angiogenic Effects of Bevacizumab in a Mouse Xenografted Model
• Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound Imaging of Breast Sentinel Lymph Nodes: Preliminary Observation
• Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound in the Diagnosis of Cystic Renal Lesion
• Cost-Effectiveness Analysis Concerning the Surveillance of Hepatocellular Carcinoma with Contrast Enhanced Ultrasonography
• Custom Open-System Software for Sonographers
• Detection and Characterization of Endoleaks After Endovascular Repair of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm: Comparison of Contrast Enhanced Ultrasound (CEUS) with Computed Tomographic Angiography (CTA)
• Detection of Early Ovarian Tumor Associated Neo-Angiogenesis by Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound in Laying Hens, a Spontaneous Animal Model of Human Ovarian Cancer
• Differential Diagnosis of Breast Clustered Microcysts
• Direct Measurement of Blood Flow Velocity in Small Diameter Vessels Using Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound
• Dynamic Ultrasound Study on the Urinary Bladder in Infants With Hydronephrosis Detected Antenatally
• e-Tracking and Intima Media thickness Thickness of Carotid Artery:Initial Eexperience in Obese Indian Children
• Early Pregnancy Yolk Sac Volume Measurements in Virtual Reality
• Effects of Ultrasonic Cavitation on Migration of Tumor Cells
• Efficacy of Two Staged Ultrasonography for a Detection of Vesicoureteral Reflux
• Efficacy of US in the Evaluation of Primary Epiploic Appendagitis: CT Correlation
• Engaging Clinicians in Actively Managing the Risk of Antenatal Missed and Mis-Diagnosis
• Enhanced Effects of Liposome Microbubble on Ultrasound Mediated Gene Transfection
• Enhancement Pattern of Hilar Cholangiocarcinoma: Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound Versus Contrast-Enhanced Computed Tomography
• Establishment of Breast Ultrasound Training Course in Japan
• Evaluated Balloon Valvuloplasty in Different Aged Children with Pulmonary Valve Stenosis with Transthoracic Doppler Echocardiography
• Evaluating the Hip Joints’Blood Flow of Perthes’disease with Ultrasonography
• Evaluation of the Incidence of Paediatric Renal Diseases in the South-West Region of China with Color Doppler Ultrasonography: Primary Study
• Evaluation of the Renal Ultrasound Findings Associated with Melamine-Tainted Milk Products
• Evaluation of Ultrasonography for Solid Organ Injury in Blunt Abdominal Trauma. Experience at Mulago Hospital Makerere University Uganda
• Factors Affecting Inadequate Sampling of US-Guided Thyroid Fine Needle Aspiration Biopsy
• Factors Predicting Complete Destruction (CD), Local Tumor Progression (LTP) and Survival after Percutaneous Ablation of Hepatocellular Carcinoma (HCC)
• Factors Predicting Development of New Distant Intrahepatic Metastases (NDIM) after Radiofrequency Ablation (RFA) of Liver Metastases
• Feasibility of Point-of-Care Colour Doppler Ultrasound Confirmation of Intraosseous Needle Placement During Resuscitation
• Gray-Scale Contrast-Enhanced Utrasound in Detecting the Sentinel Lymph Nodes: An Animal Study
• Hepatic Flexure Diverticulitis: Sonographic Findings and Significance in the Evaluation of RUQ Abdominal Pain
• Hepatic Outflow Obstruction at Middle Hepatic Vein Tributaries or Inferior Right Hepatic Veins after Living Donor Liver Transplantation with Modified Right-lobe Graft: Comparison of CT and Doppler Sonography
• High Resolution Ultrasound (HRUS) of Carpal Ligaments in Rheumatoid Athritis: Preliminary Experience
• High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound Ablation for Patients with Hepatocellular Carcinoma
• How Can We Improve Detectability of Hepatic Metastases Using Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound with Sonazoid by Comparing to Superparamagnetic Iron Oxide Enhanced MRI
• How Relevant is Real-Time Elastography (Siemens), for the Evaluation of Liver Stiffness?
• How to Address the Treatment of Idiopathic Plantar Fasciitis with Mini-Invasive Techniques: HRUS Criterion
• Image Analysis of Real-time Tissue Elastography for Evaluation of Liver Fibrosis Progression
• Improving Fetal Cardiac Counseling With the Use of a CD-ROM
• Intravesical Prostate Protrusion (IPP) Measured on Transrectal Ultrasonography: Clinical Correlation and a Comparison with the Measurement on Transabdominal Ultrasonography
• Leprosy - Ultrasound Evaluation of Peripheral Nerves
• Methods for Sonochemical Manufacture of Proteinaceous Ultrasound Contrast Agents
• Network Theory and Ultrasound Labs
• Optimization of Ultrasound-Targeted Microbubble Destruction Mediated Gene Transfection in Vitro
• Percutaneous US-Guided Hematoma Aspiration to Reduce Recovery Time of II Grade Muscle Strain in Elite Soccer Players
• Pregnancy Outcome in the Setting of Extremely Low First Trimester PAPPA Levels
• Prenatal Diagnosis of Congenital High Airway Obstruction Syndrome by Ultrasound and Magnetic Resonance Imaging
• Preoperative Staging of Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma: Comparison of Ultrasonography and Computed Tomography
• Primary Epiploic Appendagitis: Clinical, US and CT Findings in 15 Cases
• Production of a Molecular Polymer Ultrasound Contrast Agents with Gd-DTPA and in Vitro Experiment
• Quantification of Tissue Perfusion with Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound – An in Vitro Experiment to Study the Impact of Dynamic Range and Gain on Time-Intensity Curves
• Quantification of Tissue Perfusion with Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound – An in Vitro Flow Phantom Experiment to Study the Variability of Time-Intensity Curves with Ultrasound Scanner and Quantification Settings and Experimental Parameters
• Reflux Changes at the Saphenofemoral Junction Following Endovenous Laser Obliteration of the Great Saphenous Vein
• Relationship Between Longitudinal and Radial Contractility by Velocity Vector Imaging in Rabbits with Early Adriamycin-induced Myocardial Damage
• Relationship Between the Incidence, Location and Extent of Atherosclerosis in the Thoracic Aorta and the Extent of Coronary Artery Disease
• Renal Cell Carcinoma and Renal Angiomyolipoma: Differentiation with Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound
• Roles of Echo-Based Monitoring for Preventing Neurological Complications in Aortic Surgery
• ShearWave Elastography: A New Ultrasound Imaging Concept for Assessing Quantitatively Soft Tissue Elasticity
• Sonoelastographic Evaluation of Achilles Tendon in Amateur Symptomatic Runners
• Sonographic Appearance of Ascaris
• Sonographic Assessment of Lower Limb Arterial Calcification – ? Novel Marker for Predicting Diabetic Complications
• Sonographic Findings of Fibrous Hamartoma of Infancy
• Sonographically Detected Caesarean Section Defects and Menstrual Irregularity
• Study of Ultrasound Microbubble Enhancement Characteristics of Parathyroid Lesions
• Study on Suppression of Tissue Signal in Ultrasound Contrast Imaging
• The Application of Contrast-enhanced Ultrasonography in Benign Cystic Renal Masses
• The Edinburgh Pipe Phantom: Characterising Ultrasound Scanners up to 60MHz
• The Effect of a Surface on the Response of Microbubbles to Ultrasound
• The Incidence of Echogenic Bowel in Fetuses Following Chorionic Villus Sampling
• The Relationship Between Intensity of Enhancement and Microvessel Density of Gastric Carcinoma Using Double Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasonography
• The Significance of Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound in Hepatic Artery Complication after Right Living Donor Liver Transplantation
• The Value of 3D Ultrasound in Women with Postmenopausal Bleeding
• The Value of Handheld Limited Echocardiography in Population screening
• Treatment Response Evaluation with 3D Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound for Liver Cancer after Local Therapies
• Ultrasonographic Examination of Microchambers and Macrochambers Tissue Properties in Diabetic Heel Pads
• Ultrasonographic Semeiotics of Calcific Tendonitis of the Shoulder: Where Does the Calcium go in the Resorptive Phase?
• Ultrasonography is Useful to Detect Severity of Fatty Infiltration in Alcoholic Liver Diseases Independent of Body Mass Index, Liver Inflammation, Fibrosis and Cirrhosis
• Ultrasound (US) - Elastography of Suspicious Abnormal Breast Lesions Detected by Supplemental Screening US
• Ultrasound (US)- Guided Percutaneous Treatment of Lateral Epicondylitis
• Ultrasound and Contrast Agents Enhance VEGF siRNA-Mediated Anti-Cancer Effect on Human Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma in Vivo
• Ultrasound Assessment of Endothelial Function with Flow-Mediated Vasodilatation of the Brachial Artery
• Ultrasound Detection of Intermittent and Positional Dependent Endoleaks; Evidence for a Novel Mehanism of AAA Sac Growth After Endovascular Repair
• Ultrasound Exposure Enhances Gene Delivery with PLGA-Based Nanoparticles
• Ultrasound of the Posterior Circumflex Humeral Artery
• Ultrasound Predicts Treatment of Thyroid Benign Cystic Lesions with Aspirations and Levothyroxin
• Ultrasound Transducer Disinfection - An Examination of Cleaning and Disinfection Practices for Surface and Intracavity Transducers
• Ultrasound-Guided Percutaneous Laser Ablation in Patients with Benign Thyroid Nodules
• Unusual Imaging and Surgical Findings in the Acutely Painful Pediatric Scrotum
• Usefulness of 3D Contrast-enhanced Ultrasonic Cholangiography for Detecting Anatomical Variation of Biliary Tract in Living Liver Donors
• Usefulness of 3D Ultrasonography Before Minimally Invasive Focused Parathyroidectomy; Importance of Coronal Image
• Usefulness of Ultrasound Elastography in Identifying Thyroid Malignancy
• Utilizing Image Segmentation of Ultrasound Images to Detect Nodal Disease with Both Manual and Automatic Techniques
• Value of Intraoperative Sonography in Pediatric and Adult Congenital and Vascular Malformations in the Brain and Spine
• Value of Modified Elasticity Scoring System in the Diagnosis of Solid Breast Lesions
• Value of Sonography Versus Core Biopsy For Non-Palpable Breast Nodules
• Value of US in Diagnosing Bony Erosoins Comparing to X-Ray
• Varied Regional Mechanical Behaviors in Response to Different Velocity Spectra Along the Dialysis Arteriovenous Fistula
• Various Sonographic Findings of Midgut Volvulus: Focus on New Sonographic Signs other than Whirlpool Sign
• Ventricular Ratio in Normal Neonatal Brain
• Visualization of Microstructure of the Skin by 3D Ultrasound Microscope

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