title: Update on abdominal imaging: contrast enhanced ultrasonography.
abstract: Contrast enhanced ultrasonography (CEUS) is a new imaging modality offering new perspectives in the management of abdominal disease. The objectives of this review are to expose briefly principles of CEUS signal acquisition, to illustrate second generation of contrast agent signal, to give a short overview of current clinical applications of CEUS, and to discuss CEUS feasibility.
authors: Department of Radiology, Clinique Saint-Pierre, Ottignies, Belgium. thierry.puttemans@scarlet.be
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authors: Puttemans
mesh_terms: D000005:Abdomen / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D003287:Contrast Media; D006801:Humans; D008113:Liver Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D045423:Microbubbles; D014463:Ultrasonography / Q000379:methods*
chemical_list: D003287:Contrast Media