BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE MR imaging-guided focused sonography surgery is a new stereotactic technique that uses high-intensity focused sonography to heat and ablate tissue. The goal of this study was to describe MR imaging findings pre- and post-ventralis intermedius nucleus lesioning by MR imaging-guided focused sonography as a treatment for essential tremor and to determine whether there was an...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Sonography, CT, and MR imaging are commonly used to screen for neonatal intracranial ischemia and hemorrhage, yet few studies have attempted to determine which imaging technique is best suited for this purpose. The goals of this study were to compare sonography with CT and MR imaging prospectively for the detection of intracranial ischemia or hemorrhage and to determine t...

Objective. The purpose of this study was to compare fundamental gray scale sonography, tissue harmonic imaging (THI), and differential tissue harmonic imaging (DTHI) for depicting normal and abnormal livers. Methods. The in vitro lateral resolution of DTHI, THI, and sonography was assessed in a phantom. Sagittal and transverse images of right and left hepatic lobes of 5 volunteers and 20 patien...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Atherothrombotic disease of the middle cerebral artery (MCA) frequently occurs in Asian populations. This abnormality can be noninvasively assessed with transcranial Doppler sonography (TCD) and computed tomographic angiography (CTA). To our knowledge, the usefulness of TCD sonography compared with CTA in the diagnosis of nonembolic MCA disease has not been studied. MET...

OBJECTIVE We recently developed a real-time virtual sonography (RVS) system that enables simultaneous display of both sonography and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) cutaway images of the same site in real time. The aim of this study was to evaluate the role of RVS in the management of enhancing lesions visualized with MRI. METHODS Between June 2006 and April 2007, 65 patients underwent MRI f...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to evaluate the accuracy of screening sonography for the detection of clinically significant abdominal injury in pregnant patients with blunt trauma. METHODS We retrospectively reviewed the records of 5173 patients with blunt abdominal trauma who underwent screening sonography. Pregnant patients were identified, and the prospective sonographic interpret...

Duplex sonography and intravenous digital subtraction angiography (DSA) were compared in 102 carotid bifurcations in 51 patients. Sonograms were adequate in 87 (85%) vessels and angiograms were adequate on at least one view in 86 (84%) vessels. An adequate image was obtained by one or the other method in all but two vessels (98%). Although most vessels were seen well on one view only on DSA, ag...

Between 1988 and 1999, renal sonography and intravenous urography were performed to detect renal malformations in 54 patients with Turner's syndrome (TS). The mean age of these patients at diagnosis of TS was 9.2 +/- 4.6 years. Renal malformations were detected in 21 patients by intravenous urography and there was no significant difference in the frequency of renal malformations among different...

BACKGROUND The objective was the investigation of a possible predictive quantitative impact of initial tumor sphericity, measured by 3D sonography, on response to pre-operative chemotherapy. PATIENTS AND METHODS This 3D ultrasound study was conducted on 41 consecutive primary breast cancer patients who received pre-operative epirubicin and paclitaxel chemotherapy; the tumors were measured by ...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Doppler sonography of the carotid arteries is routinely performed before catheter angiography, and its results may bias the subsequent interpretation of angiograms. We attempt to establish that Doppler sonography may show an exaggerated degree of carotid stenosis, introducing bias to the evaluation of carotid stenosis by subsequent catheter angiography. METHODS Angiogra...