Contemporary Interventional Ultrasonography in Urology

1. Historical Background
Hiroki Watanabe

2. Laparoscopic Ultrasonography
Surena F. Matin

3. Ultrasound-Guided Prostate Cryosurgery: State of the Art
Gary Onik

4. Recent Advance in TRUS-Guided Prostate Brachytherapy
Zhouping Wei, Mingyue Ding, Donal B. Downey, Aaron Fenster

5. IntraOperative Real-Time Transrectal Ultrasound Monitoring During Energy-Free Nerve-Sparing Laparoscopic Radical Prostatectomy
Osamu Ukimura, Inderbir S. Gill

6. Contemporary TRUS-Guided Prostate Biopsy for Screening and Staging
Kazumi Kamoi, Richard J. Babaian

7. The Use of High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound in Prostate Cancer
Christian Chaussy, Stefan Thüroff

8. Harmonic Scalpel
David D. Thiel, Howard N. Winfield

9. Intravascular Ultrasound
Srinivasa Kalidindi, Stephen J. Nicholls, Steven E. Nissen

10. Ultrasound Application for Penile Disorders: Color Doppler Ultrasound Hemodynamic Evaluation for Erectile Dysfunction and Priapism
Rei K. Chiou, Christopher R. Chiou, Fleur L. Broughton

11. The Physics of Ultrasound and Some Recent Techniques Used
Gert Karlsson

12. Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound for the Prostate
N. Wondergem, J. J. M. C. H. de la Rosette

13. Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound of the Kidneys
Patricia Beemster, Pilar Laguna Pes, Hessel Wijkstra

14. The Integration of Computed Topography Imaging in Ultrasound Diagnosis: Real-Time Virtual Sonography
Tsuyoshi Mitake, Osamu Arai

15. Elastography
Katharina Koenig

16. Ultrasonic Tissue Characterization
Ulrich Scheipers

17. Augmented Reality for Computer-Assisted Image-Guided Minimally Invasive Urology
Osamu Ukimura, Inderbir S. Gill

18. Robotic Percutaneous Interventions
Dan Stoianovici, Bogdan Vigaru, Doru Petrisor, Pierre Mozer

Keywords: Medicine & Public Health, Urology/Andrology, Ultrasound, Imaging / Radiology, Minimally Invasive Surgery, Surgery