Three decades of ultrasound contrast agents: a review of the past, present and future improvements

P Frinking, T Segers, Y Luan, F Tranquart - Ultrasound in medicine & …, 2020 - Elsevier
Initial reports from the 1960s describing the observations of ultrasound contrast
enhancement by tiny gaseous bubbles during echocardiographic examinations prompted …

[HTML][HTML] Spotlight on porphyrins: Classifications, mechanisms and medical applications

F Yang, M Xu, X Chen, Y Luo - Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy, 2023 - Elsevier
Photodynamic therapy (PDT) and sonodynamic therapy (SDT) are non-invasive treatment
methods with obvious inhibitory effect on tumors and have few side effects, which have been …

[HTML][HTML] Guidelines and good clinical practice recommendations for contrast enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) in the liver–update 2020–WFUMB in cooperation with …

CF Dietrich, CP Nolsøe, RG Barr… - Ultraschall in der …, 2020 - thieme-connect.com
The present, updated document describes the fourth iteration of recommendations for the
hepatic use of contrast enhanced ultrasound (CEUS), first initiated in 2004 by the European …

[HTML][HTML] Performance of contrast-enhanced ultrasound in thyroid nodules: review of current state and future perspectives

M Radzina, M Ratniece, DS Putrins, L Saule… - Cancers, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Ultrasound has been used as baseline imaging for thyroid nodules for
decades; nevertheless, no single feature is sensitive or specific enough to exclude or …

[HTML][HTML] The AFSUMB consensus statements and recommendations for the clinical practice of contrast-enhanced ultrasound using Sonazoid

JY Lee, Y Minami, BI Choi, WJ Lee… - Journal of medical …, 2020 - journals.lww.com
The first edition of the guidelines for the use of ultrasound contrast agents was published in
2004, dealing with liver applications. The second edition of the guidelines in 2008 reflected …

[HTML][HTML] Contrast enhanced ultrasonography (CEUS) to detect abdominal microcirculatory disorders in severe cases of COVID-19 infection: First experience

EM Jung, C Stroszczynski… - Clinical hemorheology and …, 2020 - content.iospress.com
In the hands of experienced examiners, the contrast enhanced sonography (CEUS) offers
the possibility to analyze dynamic microcirculatory disturbances in real time dynamically …

[HTML][HTML] Ultrasound localization microscopy of renal tumor xenografts in chicken embryo is correlated to hypoxia

MR Lowerison, C Huang, F Lucien, S Chen, P Song - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
Ultrasound localization microscopy (ULM) permits the reconstruction of super-resolved
microvascular images at clinically relevant penetration depths, which can be potentially …

[HTML][HTML] Advanced ultrasound imaging in glioma surgery: beyond gray-scale B-mode

M Del Bene, A Perin, C Casali, F Legnani… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Introduction: Glioma surgery is aimed at obtaining maximal safe tumor resection while
preserving or improving patient's neurological status. For this reason, there is growing …

Recent advances in vascular ultrasound imaging technology and their clinical implications

S Golemati, DD Cokkinos - Ultrasonics, 2022 - Elsevier
In this paper recent advances in vascular ultrasound imaging technology are discussed,
including three-dimensional ultrasound (3DUS), contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) and …

Ultrasound contrast: gas microbubbles in the vasculature

AL Klibanov - Investigative Radiology, 2021 - journals.lww.com
Gas-filled microbubbles are currently in clinical use as blood pool contrast agents for
ultrasound imaging. The goal of this review is to discuss the trends and issues related to …