December 1, 2020 — Ultraschall in der Medizin – European Journal of Ultrasound
Abstract
Purpose
Accurate characterization of testicular lesions is crucial to allow for correct treatment of malignant tumors and to avoid unnecessary procedures in benign ones. In recent years, contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) proved to be superior in specifying the dignity of small, nonpalpable testicular lesions (< 1.5 cm) compared to native B-mode and color Doppler ultrasound which were previously regarded as the primary imaging method. However, the cost-effectiveness of CEUS has not been (read more…)

November 21, 2020 — Pharmaceutics – Special Issue: Advances in Physics Methods for Drug Delivery
Abstract
The blood-brain barrier is the primary obstacle to efficient intracerebral drug delivery. Focused ultrasound, in conjunction with microbubbles, is a targeted and non-invasive way to disrupt the blood-brain barrier. Many commercially available ultrasound contrast agents and agents specifically designed for therapeutic purposes have been investigated in ultrasound-mediated blood-brain barrier opening studies. The new generation of sono-sensitive agents, such as liquid-core droplets, can also potentially disrupt the (read more…)

November 20, 2020 — European Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery
Abstract
Objective
Clear imaging of below knee and foot arteries is essential to plan distal reconstructions. Contrast enhanced tomographic 3D ultrasound (CEtUS) is novel and entirely safe with no exposure to ionising radiation or nephrotoxic contrast. In the present study, inter- and intra-observer agreement of CEtUS was calculated, and compared with below knee angiography.
Methods
In the same week as computed tomography, magnetic resonance or catheter angiography, CEtUS was performed using intravenous 1.2 mL (read more…)

November 17, 2020 — Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology
Abstract
The goal of this meta-analysis is to investigate whether carotid intraplaque neovascularization (IPN) on contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) correlates with past cardiovascular events (CVEs) and prognosis. The present meta-analysis included 22 studies involving 3232 patients. The pooled analysis revealed that the presence of IPN was significantly associated with a higher incidence of future CVEs (pooled relative risk = 3.28, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 2.28–4.73) and a lower event-free probability (pooled hazard ratio = 2.51, 95% CI: 1.48–4.27). (read more…)

November 16, 2020 — UroToday.com
At the Fragments of Imaging session at the European Multidisciplinary Congress on Urological Cancers 2020 virtual meeting, Dr. Christophe Mannaerts discussed emerging roles for ultrasound as it relates to prostate cancer detection.
Dr. Mannaerts started by noting that greyscale ultrasound is not a reliable method for detecting prostate cancer, even though some tumors are visible as hypoechoic lesions. However, there are emerging novel ultrasound modalities for prostate cancer detection and localization, including C-Trus, contrast-enhanced ultrasound, shear (read more…)

November 12, 2020 — Frontiers in Oncology
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Introduction: Worldwide, the incidence and mortality of lung cancer are at the highest levels, and the most lesions are located in the lung periphery. Despite extensive screening and diagnosis, the pathologic types of peripheral pulmonary lesions (PPLs) are difficult to diagnose by noninvasive examination. This study aimed to identify a novel index—time difference of arrival (TDOA)—to discriminate between benign inflammation and malignant PPLs.
Methods: Using contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS), we retrospectively analyzed 96 patients with PPLs (read more…)

November 10, 2020 — AuntMinnie
By Theresa Pablos
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Extract
Ultrasound has been around forever. It suffers from low resolution. It hasn’t had the same buzzworthy advancements seen in other imaging modalities. But that’s changing, thanks to new technologies redefining how ultrasound is performed — and who gets to perform it.
What’s the result? Leading radiologists are increasingly pointing to ultrasound as the imaging method of the future.
“There are a lot of interesting things happening that I hope will reelevate (read more…)

November 9, 2020 — DocWire News
Purpose: To assess the diagnostic accuracy of grayscale (GSUS), power Doppler (PDUS) and contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) for detecting synovitis in knee osteoarthritis (OA).
Method: Patients with different degrees of radiographic knee OA were included prospectively. All underwent GSUS, PDUS, CEUS, and contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (CE-MRI), on which synovitis was assessed semi-quantitatively. Correlations of synovitis severity on ultrasound based techniques with CE-MRI were determined. Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analysis was performed to assess diagnostic performance of (read more…)

November 2, 2020 — Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology
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The aim of the study was to evaluate and compare contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS)and contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (CE-MRI) with respect to their valuein the differential diagnosis between benign and malignant mediastinal tumors.
Method:  Forty-two patients with mediastinal tumor underwent CEUS and CE-MRI respectively. The sensitivity, specificity, diagnostic coincidence rate, positive predictive value (PPV) and negative predictive value of the two methods were compared. The value of different enhancement patterns in the differential diagnosis (read more…)

October 31, 2020 — Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology
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Kidney transplantation is the best choice for patients with end-stage renal disease. To date, allograft biopsy remains the gold standard for revealing pathologic changes and predicting long-term outcomes. However, the invasive nature of transplant biopsy greatly limits its application. Ultrasound has been a first-line examination for evaluating kidney allografts for a long time. Advances in ultrasound in recent years, especially the growing number of studies in elastography and contrast-enhanced ultrasonography(CEUS), have shed (read more…)