Contrast-Enhanced Intravascular Ultrasound Pulse Sequences for Bandwidth-Limited Transducers

Dual-Frequency Piezoelectric Transducers for Contrast Enhanced Ultrasound Imaging

For many years, ultrasound has provided clinicians with an affordable and effective imaging tool for applications ranging from cardiology to obstetrics. Development of microbubble contrast agents over the past several decades has enabled ultrasound to distinguish between blood flow and surrounding tissue. Current clinical practices using microbubble contrast agents rely heavily on user training...

Intravascular Targets for Molecular Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound Imaging

Molecular targeting of contrast agents for ultrasound imaging is emerging as a new medical imaging modality. It combines advances in ultrasound technology with principles of molecular imaging, thereby allowing non-invasive assessment of biological processes in vivo. Preclinical studies have shown that microbubbles, which provide contrast during ultrasound imaging, can be targeted to specific mo...

Pulse sequences for contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging

Contrast-enhanced endoscopic ultrasound.

Compared to other imaging modalities, endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) has limitations in terms of image enhancement. However, with the availability of contrast agents in ultrasonography, EUS has evolved. Contrast-enhanced Doppler EUS (CD-EUS) enhances Doppler signals from vessels and is useful for characterizing lesions detected by EUS. Moreover, contrast-enhanced harmonic EUS (CH-EUS) with second-...

Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound

1Department of Medical Ultrasound, Shanghai Tenth People’s Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, No. 301, Yanchangzhong Road, Shanghai 200072, China 2Thyroid Institute, Tongji University School of Medicine, No. 301, Yanchangzhong Road, Shanghai 200072, China 3Central Ultrasound Department, Klinikum Siloah, KRH, Roesebeckstrasse 15, 30449 Hannover, Germany 4Department of Radiology, Tho...