Ultrasound provides a valuable tool for medical diagnosis offering real-time imaging with
excellent spatial resolution and low cost. The advent of microbubble contrast agents has …

Ultrasound (US) has undergone dramatic changes since its inception three decades ago;
the original cumbersome B-mode gantry system has evolved into a high resolution real-time …

Ultrasound microbubble contrast agents are effective and safe echo enhancers. An
ingenious array of methods are employed to achieve stability and provide a clinically useful …

The structure of microvasculature cannot be resolved using standard clinical ultrasound (US)
imaging frequencies due to the fundamental diffraction limit of US waves. In this work, we …

… More recently, this has been extended by Eckersley et al. (2001) and Phillips (2001). In each
of … Eckersley would like to thank friends and colleagues at Sunnybrook Health Sciences …

Ultrasound (US) is a widely used clinical imaging modality that offers penetration depths in
tissue of> 10 cm. However, the spatial resolution in US imaging is fundamentally limited by …

Background and aims: A reliable non-invasive assessment of the severity of diffuse liver
disease is much needed. We investigated the utility of hepatic vein transit times (HVTT) for …

Encapsulated microbubbles are well established as highly effective contrast agents for
ultrasound imaging. There remain, however, some significant challenges to fully realize the …

PURPOSE: To evaluate the pharmacokinetics of the microbubble contrast agent BR1.
MATERIALS AND METHODS: Twenty healthy volunteers were injected via arm vein with a 1.2-mL …

PURPOSE: To see whether stimulated acoustic emission (SAE) in the liver parenchyma in
the late phase of enhancement with SH U 508A increases the conspicuity of occult …