title: Real-time temporal maximum-intensity-projection imaging of hepatic lesions with contrast-enhanced sonography.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  We sought to perform a preliminary evaluation of temporal maximum intensity projection (MIP) of focal hepatic masses in selected patients. The technique processes real-time contrast-enhanced sonography images by integrating the path of moving bubbles to depict vascular morphology. Following a high-intensity ultrasound pulse that disrupts bubbles within the scan plane, MIP images the trajectories of fresh bubbles replenishing the plane and revealing their course.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Vascular morphology is depicted at a level or detail not seen before with sonography. High-frame-rate sequences of less than one second uniquely show arterial structure in liver lesions.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medical Imaging, Toronto General Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
authors.forename: Stephanie R
authors.initials: SR
authors.lastname: Wilson
authors.forename: Hyun-Jung
authors.initials: HJ
authors.lastname: Jang
authors.forename: Tae Kyoung
authors.initials: TK
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Hiroko
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Iijima
authors.forename: Naohisa
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Kamiyama
authors.forename: Peter N
authors.initials: PN
authors.lastname: Burns
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D003287:Contrast Media; D005260:Female; D005466:Fluorocarbons; D020518:Focal Nodular Hyperplasia / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D007091:Image Processing, Computer-Assisted / Q000379:methods*; D008099:Liver / Q000098:blood supply; D008113:Liver Neoplasms / Q000098:blood supply / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology; D008297:Male; D045423:Microbubbles; D008875:Middle Aged; D014463:Ultrasonography / Q000379:methods
chemical_list: D003287:Contrast Media; D005466:Fluorocarbons; C042852:perflutren