OBJECTIVE To determine if power Doppler ultrasound examination of the endometrium can contribute to a correct diagnosis of endometrial malignancy in women with postmenopausal bleeding and endometrium > or = 5 mm. METHODS Eighty-three women with postmenopausal bleeding and endometrium > or = 5 mm underwent gray-scale and power Doppler ultrasound examination using predetermined, standardized se...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Experimental and clinical data suggest that insonation of echo-contrast agents with high acoustical power produces disintegration of microbubbles, resulting in a pseudo-Doppler phenomenon called stimulated acoustic emission (SAE). The purpose of this study was to investigate whether SAE might be detected by transcranial color Doppler imaging and whether these signals migh...

OBJECTIVE To assess the usefulness of colour power-Doppler transrectal sonography before/after contrast agent in the detection of local recurrence in patients with rising prostate-specific antigen values after radical prostatectomy and to compare with magnetic resonance imaging . MATERIALS AND METHODS 18 patients with rising prostate-specific antigen values after prostatectomy underwent digit...

In this study, Doppler signals recorded from internal carotid artery of 45 subjects were processed by PC-computer using classical (fast Fourier transform) and model-based (autoregressive, moving average, autoregressive moving average (ARMA) methods) methods. Power spectral density estimates of internal carotid arterial Doppler signals were obtained using these spectral analysis methods. The var...

The Doppler effect, which occurs on the reflection of ultrasound from moving blood or tissue, is observed as a shift in frequency of the reflected ultrasound from that of the incident ultrasound. This Doppler shift has been widely used in clinical practice as a means of measuring blood velocity. Two types of Doppler Imaging are often discussed as facilities on ultrasonic scanners, namely Colour...

BACKGROUND The present study (1) compared the ability of power Doppler imaging with that of gray-scale B-mode tissue imaging to opacify the myocardium and detect coronary stenosis by myocardial contrast echocardiography and (2) compared the response of video intensity (VI) to variable pulsing intervals for each modality. METHODS AND RESULTS Four grades of left anterior descending coronary art...

Advanced ultrasound technology has been a valuable tool in the assessment of placental anatomy and physiology. Con­ ventional two­dimensional (2D) sonography reveals placental morphological characteristics, 2D color Doppler can assess blood flow in the placenta, 2D power Doppler can evaluate placental vascular trees, and three­dimensional (3D) ultra­ sound gives more detailed information on the...