ICUS Weekly News Monitor Archive
- Perfusion patterns of peripheral pulmonary lesions in COVID‐19 patients using contrast‐enhanced ultrasound (CEUS)
- Microbubbles Augment RT in Liver Cancer Patients
- Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound Assessment of Renal Parenchymal Perfusion in Patients with Atherosclerotic Renal Artery Stenosis to Predict Renal Function Improvement After Revascularization
- Prognostic value of intraplaque neovascularization detected by carotid Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound in patients undergoing stress echocardiography
- Clinical and Contrast-enhanced Ultrasound Characteristics of Epithelioid and Classic Hepatic Angiomyolipoma: Comparison With Alpha-fetoprotein–negative Hepatocellular Carcinoma
- Microbubbles Create Greater Radiation Sensitivity in Liver Tumors
- A first-in-human clinical trial shows microbubbles augments radiation in liver cancer patients
- US-triggered Microbubble Destruction for Augmenting Hepatocellular Carcinoma Response to Transarterial Radioembolization: A Randomized Pilot Clinical Trial
- Contrast-enhanced ultrasonography to evaluate risk factors for short-term and long-term outcomes after liver transplantation: A pilot prospective study
- Contrast-enhanced ultrasound of the liver in colorectal cancer: A useful tool in the right patient
- Should We Use Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound (CEUS) for the Characterization of Nonpalpable Testicular Lesions? An Analysis from a Cost-Effectiveness Perspective
- Recent Advances on Ultrasound Contrast Agents for Blood-Brain Barrier Opening with Focused Ultrasound
- Comparison Between Below Knee Contrast Enhanced Tomographic 3D Ultrasound and CT, MR or Catheter Angiography for Peripheral Artery Imaging
- Carotid Intraplaque Neovascularization on Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound Correlates with Cardiovascular Events and Poor Prognosis: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
- EMUC 2020: Ultrasound Is Improving: 29 Mhz, mpUS, C-TRUS, Elastography and Microbubble
- Time Difference of Arrival on Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound in Distinguishing Benign Inflammation From Malignant Peripheral Pulmonary Lesions
- Road to RSNA 2020 — Ultrasound: The 60-year-old modality of the future
- Diagnostic accuracy of grayscale, power Doppler and contrast-enhanced ultrasound compared with contrast-enhanced MRI in the visualization of synovitis in knee osteoarthritis
- Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasonography versus Contrast-Enhanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging in the Diagnosis of Mediastinal Tumors
- Advances of Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasonography and Elastography in Kidney Transplantation: From Microscopic to Microcosmic
- Ultrasound vs. MRI to detect uterine leiomyomas
- Utility of Targeted Ultrasound in Predicting Malignancy Among Lesions Detected on Contrast-Enhanced Digital Mammography
- An Integrated Approach to Ultrasound Imaging in Medicine and Biology
- Special Collection of Papers from the 25th European Symposium on Ultrasound Contrast Imaging – A set of review articles covering the past, present and future of UCA
- Contrast-enhanced ultrasound can guide the therapeutic strategy by improving the detection of colorectal liver metastases
- An Introduction to the EFSUMB Guidelines on Interventional Ultrasound (INVUS)
- Guidelines and Good Clinical Practice Recommendations for Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound (CEUS) in the Liver – Update 2020 WFUMB in Cooperation with EFSUMB, AFSUMB, AIUM, and FLAUS
- Evaluation of the Reproducibility of Bolus Transit Quantification With Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound Across Multiple Scanners and Analysis Software Packages — A Quantitative Imaging Biomarker Alliance Study
- CEUS liver guidelines get first update in 8 years
- Does Contrast Enhanced Ultrasound (CEUS) of Normal/Benign Axillary Lymph Nodes in Patients with Breast Cancer Identify Significant Axillary Nodal Burden?
- Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound Outperforms CT and MRI with Some Liver Cancers
- Enhanced ultrasound bests CT, MR for diagnosing some liver cancers
- Vascular Imaging of Pulmonary Disorders
- Comparison of Contrast‐Enhanced Ultrasound Versus Magnetic Resonance Imaging in the Detection and Characterization of Uterine Leiomyomas
- Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound in Pediatric Imaging
- Identification of Need for Ultrasound Enhancing Agent Study (the IN-USE study)
- Review of ultrasound contrast agents in current clinical practice with special focus on DEFINITY® in cardiac imaging
- Diagnostic Value of Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound for Differential Diagnosis of Malignant and Benign Soft Tissue Masses: A Meta-Analysis
- A Survey of CEUS Education in Sonographer Training Programs: The Well-Opacified and Delineated Road Less Travelled, and Ready to be Taken
- Contrast-enhanced ultrasound of focal liver masses
- Contrast group asks FDA to pull ‘black box’ warning
- Ultrasound society urges FDA to eliminate ‘outdated’ contrast label warnings
- FDA Urged to Nix Black Box Label for Ultrasound Contrast Agents
- Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound; State of the Art in North America
- FDA Urged to Remove Boxed Warnings on Ultrasound Contrast Agents
- To Give or Not to Give? Ultrasound Enhancing Agents Remain Underutilized Tools for the Quantification of Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction
- Ultrasound Enhanced S100A4-shRNA Delivery Using Acoustically Activated Cationic Lipid Nanodroplets to Reach and Treat Myocytes within the Developing Scar Zone
- ASE Features Top 20 Echocardiography Research Abstract Presentations
- CEUS helps predict chronic kidney disease progression
- FDA approves RFID option for Definity contrast
- Improving Prognostic and Chronicity Evaluation of Chronic Kidney Disease with Contrast‐Enhanced Ultrasound Index-Derived Peak Intensity
- Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound Evaluation of Renal Blood Perfusion Changes After Percutaneous Transluminal Renal Angioplasty and Stenting for Severe Atherosclerotic Renal Artery Stenosis
- Fully Automated Quantification of Contrast and Non-Contrast Echocardiograms Eliminates Inter-Operator Variability
- Acoustical tweezers trap microbubbles
- Accelerating thrombolysis using a precision and clot-penetrating drug delivery strategy by nanoparticle-shelled microbubbles
- Contrast‐Enhanced Ultrasound Liver Imaging Reporting and Data System for Diagnosing Hepatocellular Carcinoma: A Meta‐Analysis
- EAU 2020: Ultrasound in Prostate Cancer Imaging: Dead or Ready to Get Started?
- How Is COVID ‐19 Changing Lung Ultrasound? A Survey by the Thoracic Ultrasound Academy
- Contrast-enhanced transrectal ultrasound can reduce collection of unnecessary biopsies when diagnosing prostate cancer and is predictive of biochemical recurrence following a radical prostatectomy in patients with localized prostate cancer
- Expecting the unexpected: Echo laboratory preparedness in the time of COVID‐19
- Potential value of three-dimensional ultrasonography in diagnosis of diabetic nephropathy in Chinese diabetic population with kidney injury
- Improved medical imaging improves cancer staging
- Association between contrast-enhanced ultrasound indicators and prostate cancer biochemical recurrence after treatment
- Ultrasound software predicts cancer treatment success
- Specific Considerations for Sonographers When Performing Echocardiography during the 2019 Novel Coronavirus Outbreak: Supplement to the American Society of Echocardiography Statement
- American Society of Echocardiography Statement on Protection of Patients and Echocardiography Service Providers During the 2019 Novel Coronavirus Outbreak: Endorsed by the American College of Cardiology
- Contrast-Enhanced Echocardiographic Measurement of Left Ventricular Wall Thickness in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy: Comparison with Standard Echocardiography and Cardiac Magnetic Resonance
- Targeted Nanobubbles Carrying Indocyanine Green for Ultrasound, Photoacoustic and Fluorescence Imaging of Prostate Cancer
- Tumor Vascular Networks Depicted in Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound Images as a Predictor for Transarterial Chemoembolization Treatment Response
- Guidelines and Good Clinical Practice Recommendations for Contrast Enhanced Ultrasound (CEUS) in the Liver – Update 2020
- Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound: Identification of Neovascularization Permits Characterization of Vulnerable Carotid Plaques
- Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound for Musculoskeletal Applications: A World Federation for Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology Position Paper
- Comparative Diagnostic Evaluation with Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound, Computed Tomography and Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Patients with Pancreatic Cystic Neoplasms
- Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound Can Pinpoint Lung Findings Unique to COVID-19
- Contrast ultrasound reveals unique COVID-19 lung findings
- Contrast‑enhanced ultrasound imaging of the liver: a review of the clinical evidence for SonoVue and Sonazoid
- Ultrasound Enhancing Agents In the COVID-19 Era: Protocols, Safety, & Impact
- Registry on Performance of contrast echocardiography in confirmed COVID-19 patients
- Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound for the Evaluation of Renal Transplants
- Filling of Fine and Core Biopsy Needles With the Contrast Agent Sulfur Hexafluoride
- Contrast‐Enhanced Ultrasound in Patients With COVID‐19
- Real time ultrasound molecular imaging of prostate Cancer with PSMA-targeted Nanobubbles
- Limited added value of contrast-enhanced ultrasound over B-mode for the subtyping of hepatocellular adenomas
- Sonothrombolysis Improves Myocardial Dynamics and Microvascular Obstruction Preventing Left Ventricular Remodeling in Patients With ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction
- Benefits, Open Questions and Challenges of the use of Ultrasound in the COVID-19 pandemic era
- Lung Ultrasound in COVID-19 Webinar
- The pediatric benefits of contrast enhanced ultrasound
- First Protocol on How to Use Lung Ultrasound to Triage COVID-19
- Ultrasound’s Role in Alzheimer’s Treatment Research
- Proposal for International Standardization of the Use of Lung Ultrasound for Patients With COVID‐19
- Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound of Focal Liver Masses: A Success Story
- Use of CEUS LI-RADS for the Accurate Diagnosis of Nodules in Patients at Risk for Hepatocellular Carcinoma: A Validation Study
- CEUS of Focal Liver Masses: A Success Story!
- Dynamic solid-state ultrasound contrast agent for monitoring pH fluctuations in vivo
- Ultrasound Mediated Destruction of LMW-HA-Loaded and Folate-Conjugated Nanobubble for TAM Targeting and Reeducation
- Ultrasound assessment of tumour oxygenation could guide cancer therapy
- ASE Statement on Protection of Patients and Echocardiographic Service Providers During the 2019 Novel Coronavirus Outbreak
- Reality and possibilities in cardiology imaging
- New Treatment for Parkinson’s Disease Developed at NTHU
- Role of intraoperative ultrasound in robotic-assisted radical nephrectomy with inferior vena cava thrombectomy in renal cell carcinoma
- Implementing a Liver Contrast Program in the Sonography Laboratory – A White Paper
- Contrast enhanced ultrasound: comparing a novel modality to MRI to assess for bowel disease in pediatric Crohn’s patients
- Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound of Congenital and Infantile Hemangiomas: Preliminary Results From a Case Series
- Contrast-enhanced ultrasound with dispersion analysis for the localization of prostate cancer: correlation with radical prostatectomy specimens
- Hysterosalpingo-contrast-sonography vs. magnetic resonance-hysterosalpingography for diagnosing fallopian tubal patency: A systematic review and meta-analysis
- Analysis of comparative performance of CEUS and CECT/MR LI-RADS classification: Can CEUS dichotomize LI-RADS indeterminate lesions on CT or MRI?
- The 34th Annual Advances in Contrast Ultrasound International Bubble Conference 2019
- Lantheus touts new study on contrast echocardiography
- New Aspects of Ultrasound-Mediated Targeted Delivery and Therapy for Cancer
- 2019 ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and management of chronic coronary syndromes:
- Accurate prediction of responses to transarterial chemoembolization for patients with hepatocellular carcinoma by using artificial intelligence in contrast-enhanced ultrasound
- Transrectal Subharmonic Ultrasound Imaging for Prostate Cancer Detection
- World’s first cancer treatment being trialed in NHS hospitals could make chemotherapy ‘more effective by using BUBBLES to help kill tumors’
- Contrast-enhanced ultrasound in detecting wall invasion and differentiating bland from tumor thrombus during robot-assisted inferior vena cava thrombectomy for renal cell carcinoma
- Ultrasound Can Open Blood-Brain Barrier; Treatment could improve drug penetration and toxin removal in Alzheimer’s patients
- The Safety and Effectiveness of Intravenous Contrast-Enhanced Sonography in Chinese Children—A Single Center and Prospective Study in China
- Pediatric CEUS Usage Growing Very Fast
- FDA Approves Ultrasound Enhancing Agent for Use in Pediatric Patients
- Can CEUS with second generation contrast agents replace CT angiography for distinguishing between occlusion and pseudo-occlusion of the internal carotid artery?
- Sound waves and microbubbles to tackle tumours
- Road to RSNA 2019: Ultrasound Preview
- CEUS predicts cirrhotic nodule transformation to HCC
- Higher prostate cancer targeting ability with multiparametric ultrasound
- Can radiologists confidently use contrast-enhanced ultrasound LI-RADS?
- Ultrasound Imaging Finally Gets an Upgrade As Scientists Improve the Quality by 10x
- Ultrasound breakthrough ‘can spot cancer earlier’
- ICUS meeting highlights CEUS research
- Resolution of indeterminate MRI with CEUS in patients at high risk for hepatocellular carcinoma
- CEUS augments limb perfusion
- Microbubble CEUS treatment in cervical cancer
- Super-Resolution Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound Methodology for the Identification of In Vivo Vascular Dynamics in 2D
- Contrast Use in First Transthoracic Echocardiogram for Heart Failure Reduces Repeat Testing
- Prostate Contrast Enhanced Transrectal Ultrasound (CE-TRUS) Evaluation of the Prostate with Whole Mount Prostatectomy Correlation.
- Single-Center Study: Evaluating the Diagnostic Performance and Safety of Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound (CEUS) in Pregnant Women to Assess Hepatic Lesions.
- Invited Commentary on “Contrast-enhanced US in Local Ablative Therapy and Secondary Surveillance for Hepatocellular Carcinoma,” with Author Response
- Contrast-enhanced US in Local Ablative Therapy and Secondary Surveillance for Hepatocellular Carcinoma
- 3-D Multi-parametric Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound for the Prediction of Prostate Cancer
- Bracco highlights research affirming Lumason safety
- Multiparametric ultrasound for prostate cancer detection and localization: Correlation of B-mode, shearwave elastography and contrast-enhanced ultrasound with radical prostatectomy specimens.
- Contrast Agent Uses Heart’s Electricity to Activate Itself
- Lantheus touts contrast echo study at ASE 2019
- Sonothrombolysis in ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction Treated With Primary Percutaneous Coronary Intervention
- ‘Selfie mode’ for heart imaging could help doctors spot heart disease earlier
- Value of Qualitative and Quantitative Contrast‐Enhanced Ultrasound Analysis in Preoperative Diagnosis of Cervical Lymph Node Metastasis From Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma
- Detecting Pancreatic Cancer
- Can CEUS Increase or Predict the Success Rate of Testicular Sperm Aspiration in Patients With Azoospermia?
- Safety profile of ultrasound enhancing agents in echocardiography.
- 3D Super-Resolution US Imaging of Rabbit Lymph Node Vasculature in Vivo by Using Microbubbles
- The way forward for vascular Surgeons
- UVA House Call: Dr. Reza Daugherty on CEUS for Pediatric Patients
- Utility of Complementary Magnetic Resonance Plaque Imaging and CEUS to Detect Carotid Vulnerable Plaques
- Carotid intraplaque neovascularization predicts coronary artery disease and cardiovascular events
- New CEUS textbook publication now available – ‘Specialty Imaging: Fundamentals of CEUS’
- Targeted nanoparticles for HER2-positive breast cancer
- Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound Offers Enhanced Diagnostic Sensitivity for Diagnosis of Renal Cancer
- ICUS – 2019 ICUS-sponsored educational courses
- Injury Recovery, Noninvasive Ultrasounds & Ask the Doctor
- Contrast Enhanced Ultrasound and Endovascular Aortic Repair 2019 – 10th International Workshop on CEUS and EVAR
- A multicenter study of a contrast-enhanced ultrasound diagnostic classification of breast lesions
- Petition calls for removal of ‘black box’ designation for ultrasound contrast agents
- Groups Pushing For FDA To Remove Boxed Warning From Ultrasound Contrast Agents.
- Ultrasound Societies Urge FDA to Remove Black Box Warning on Contrast Agents
- Drug delivery System Works Like Paint by ‘Numbers’
- ICUS Education and Training CEUS Essentials – The Basics and Beyond
- Ultrasound Societies Urge FDA to Remove “Black Box” on Ultrasound Contrast Agents
- Groups continue push for FDA to remove ‘black box’ warning from ultrasound contrast agents
- Ultrasound societies want the FDA to remove contrast label warning
- Ultrasound Societies Urge FDA to Remove “Black Box” on Ultrasound Contrast Agents
- New Polylactic Acid Multifunctional Ultrasound Contrast Agent Based on Graphene Oxide as the Carrier of Targeted Factor and Drug Delivery
- A new method for precision drug delivery: Painting
- Radiology Reimbursement in 2019
- CEUS Guidance for Interventional Procedures
- Invitation For Medical Students Worldwide to Join the WFUMB Medical Student Network Group
- CEUS characterizes malignant portal vein thrombosis
- ESOU 2019: Diagnosis and Treatment of Cystic Renal Masses: Role of Contrast Enhanced Ultrasound
- Bowel Ultrasound State of the Art: Grayscale and Doppler Ultrasound, Contrast Enhancement, and Elastography in Crohn Disease
- Intravenous Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound for Assessing and Grading Postoperative Recurrence of Crohn’s Disease
- Ultrasound options abound for diagnosing liver disease
- Sonographic Characteristics of Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma with Coexistent Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis: Conventional Ultrasound, Acoustic Radiation Force Impulse Imaging and Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound
- Contrast-Enhanced US Differentiates Between Malignant/Benign Renal Lesions
- Contrast-enhanced ultrasound for renal masses
- ICUS applauds announcement of dramatic changes in payment for contrast-enhanced ultrasound imaging
- Use of ultrasound enhancing agents in transesophageal echocardiography to improve interpretive confidence of left atrial appendage thrombus
- Favorable Reimbursement Policies for Contrast-Enhanced Procedures Drives the Microbubble/Ultrasound Contrast Agents Market: Meticulous Research®
- Contrast-enhanced and unenhanced diffusion-weighted imaging of the breast at 3 T
- Evaluation of renal lesions using contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS); a 10-year retrospective European single-centre analysis
- Evaluation of upper tract urothelial carcinomas by contrast-enhanced ultrasound.
- Contrast-enhanced ultrasound for the differential diagnosis between benign and metastatic superficial lymph nodes: a meta-analysis
- CAIX aptamer-functionalized targeted nanobubbles for ultrasound molecular imaging of various tumors
- Contrast ultrasound helps characterize breast lesions
- Three-year grant to fund CHOP study of contrast ultrasound
- CHOP Radiologists Receive $300,000 Grant for Innovative Ultrasound Technology
- WCE 2018: Usefulness of Intraoperative Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasonography for Robot-Assisted Partial Nephrectomy
- Value of Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound in the Diagnosis of Renal Cancer and in Comparison With Contrast-Enhanced Computed Tomography: A Meta-analysis.
- High Frame-Rate Contrast Echocardiography: In-Human Demonstration
- Contrast-enhanced ultrasound bests CT, MRI for imaging suspicious kidney tumors
- Nasal spray and ultrasound team up for direct-to-brain drug delivery
- Medical Society Urges Broader Role for Sonographers
- Retrospective Analysis of Contrast-enhanced Ultrasonography Effectiveness in Reducing Time to Diagnosis and Imaging-related Expenditures at a Single Large United States County Hospital
- Contrast-Enhanced Transrectal Ultrasound for Follow-up After Focal HIFU Ablation for Prostate Cancer
- Echo Research and Practice – Educational series on congenital heart disease
- Blood–brain barrier opening in Alzheimer’s disease using MR-guided focused ultrasound
- Diagnostic Imaging Interest in Pediatric Contrast Ultrasound Is High Among Radiologists
- Clinical Radiology
- Siemens Healthineers Launches Acuson Sequoia to Address Industry Challenges in Ultrasound Imaging
- SonoVue approved in China for intravesical use in ultrasonography of the excretory tract to detect vesicoureteral reflux
- Bracco’s SonoVue ultrasound contrast cleared in China
- The Value of Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasonography Combined with Real-Time Strain Elastography in the Early Diagnosis of Prostate Cancer.
- The Therapeutic Ultrasound Network for Drug Delivery and Ablation Research
- AIUM Names Richard G. Barr, MD, Next Journal Editor-in-Chief
- Emerging Strategies and Future Perspectives in Neuro-Oncology Using Transcranial Focused Ultrasonography Technology
- Perfluorooctylbromide nanoparticles for ultrasound imaging and drug delivery
- New ultrasound imaging technique better detects prostate cancer
- Association between fractional flow reserve, instantaneous wave-free ratio and dobutamine stress echocardiography in patients with stable coronary artery disease.
- International Liver Cancer Association (ILCA) Message from the ILCA President
- Can Doppler or contrast-enhanced ultrasound analysis add diagnostically important information about the nature of breast lesions?
Fellow Abdominal Imaging, Department of Radiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA