Enhancing the Role of Ultrasound with Contrast Agents

Section I. Technique and Methodology of Contrast Ultrasound

1. Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound: Basic Physics and Technology Overview
David Cosgrove, Robert Eckersley

Section II. Clinical Application of Contrast Ultrasound in Liver Diseases

2. Characterisation of Benign Focal Liver Lesions with Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound (CEUS)
Christoph F. Dietrich

3. Characterisation of Hepatocellular Carcinoma in Cirrhosis
Carlos Nicolau, Concepcio Bru

4. Detection and Characterisation of Liver Metastases
Thomas Albrecht

5. Guidance of Percutaneous Tumor Ablation Procedures
Luigi Solbiati, Massimo Tonolini, Tiziana Ierace

6. Follow-up of Oncology Patients Undergoing Chemotherapy
Nathalie Lassau, Jérome Leclère, Pierre Péronneau

7. Quantification of Microbubble Enhancement in Liver Imaging
Martin Krix, Stefan Delorme

8. Intra-Operative Contrast Ultrasound in Liver Surgery
Edward Leen, Susan Moug, Paul G. Horgan

9. European Guidelines in Liver Contrast Ultrasound
Riccardo Lencioni, Clotilde Pina, Dania Cioni, Laura Crocetti, Carlo Bartolozzi

Section III. Clinical Application of Contrast Ultrasound In Vascular Diseases

10. Transcranial Doppler
Dirk W. Droste

11. Contrast Ultrasound in Cerebrovascular Disease and Stroke Management
Eva Bartels

12. Abdominal Vessels
Alberto Martegani, Luca Aiani, Claudia Borghi

Section IV. New Prospects in Clinical Application of Contrast Ultrasound

13. Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound of Focal Renal Lesions
Anders Nilsson

14. Renal Transplant Follow-up
Thomas Fischer

15. Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound in Low-Energy Blunt Abdominal Trauma
Lars Thorelius

16. Prostate Carcinoma
Ferdinand Frauscher

17. Recent Advances in Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound in Woman Pelvis Lesions
Henri Marret, Stéphane Sauget, Molly Brewer, François Tranquart

18. Role of Contrast Ultrasound in Breast Lesions and Sentinel Lymph Nodes
Giorgio Rizzatto, Roberta Chersevani

19. Value of Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound in Rheumatoid Arthritis
Andrea S. Klauser

Keywords: Medicine & Public Health, Ultrasound, Imaging / Radiology, Hepatology, Oncology, Diagnostic Radiology, Urology/Andrology