TAILIEUCHUNG - Clinical usefulness of contrast-enhanced three-dimensional ultrasound imaging with sonazoid for hepatic tumor lesions

Multiplanar 3D US imaging is thought to provide more spatial information and allow easier anatomic assessment than the conventional two-dimensional ultrasound imaging. Contrast- enhanced three-dimensional ultrasound (CE 3D US) imaging is a new medical imaging technique that uses reflections of microbubbles to clearly depict blood vessels and allows the images to be displayed spatially at different visual angles. | 9 Clinical Usefulness of Contrast-Enhanced Three-Dimensional Ultrasound Imaging with Sonazoid for Hepatic Tumor Lesions Kazushi Numata1 Wen Luo1 2 Manabu Morimoto1 Hiroyuki Fukuda1 Naoto Sato3 and Katsuaki Tanaka1 1Gastroenterological Center Yokohama City University Medical Center 4-57 Urafune-cho Minami-ku Yokohama Kanagawa 232-0024 Department of Ultrasound Xijing Hospital Fourth Military Medical University 15th Changle Xi Road Xi an ShaanXi 710032 3GEHealthcare Japan Corporation 4-7-127 Asahigaoka Hino Tokyo 191-8503 tJhpan 2China 1. Introduction In the last few years three-dimensional ultrasound 3D US imaging has attracted the interest among medical imaging researchers because of its unique ability to provide images in three orthogonal planes and the imaging tool has been proven to be useful clinically in the fields of obstetrics hepatology cardiology urology and mastology Badea et al. 2007 Benacerraf et al. 2006 Tutschek Sahn 2007 Taylor et al. 2005 Kotsianos-Hermle et al. 2009 . Multiplanar 3D US imaging is thought to provide more spatial information and allow easier anatomic assessment than the conventional two-dimensional ultrasound imaging. Contrast-enhanced three-dimensional ultrasound CE 3D US imaging is a new medical imaging technique that uses reflections of microbubbles to clearly depict blood vessels and allows the images to be displayed spatially at different visual angles. Although CE 3D US imaging has recently been evaluated as a tool for clinical diagnosis Krenning et al. 2007 Yukisawa et al. 2007 Ohto et al. 2005 Wessels et al. 2004 Forsberg et al. 2004 only a few studies have investigated its usefulness in the assessment of hepatic tumors Yukisawa et al. 2007 Ohto et al. 2005 . Hepatic tumors especially hepatocellular carcinoma HCC remain one of the most commonly encountered diseases worldwide Bosch et al. 2004 and efficacious methods for the diagnosis and therapy of this disease including CE 3D US imaging need to be explored further Camaggi et

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• Clinical usefulness of contrast enhanced
• Ultrasound imaging
• Multiplanar 3D US imaging
• Sonazoid for hepatic tumor lesions
• Enhanced three dimensional ultrasound imaging