{"title":"Resolution of oval thrombus in a case of external jugular venous aneurysm.","authors":"Ikuo Misumi, Koji Sato, Atsushi Kaguchi, Taro Okazaki, Hiroki Usuku, Kenichi Tsujita","doi":"10.1007/s10396-024-01495-z","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10396-024-01495-z","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50130,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Medical Ultrasonics","volume":" ","pages":"683-685"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142114272","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Acknowlegment to Reviewers.","authors":"","doi":"10.1007/s10396-024-01497-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10396-024-01497-x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50130,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Medical Ultrasonics","volume":"51 4","pages":"699-700"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142512122","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Correction: Beyond starving cancer: anti-angiogenic therapy.","authors":"Kyoko Hida, Nako Maishi, Aya Matsuda, Li Yu","doi":"10.1007/s10396-024-01490-4","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10396-024-01490-4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50130,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Medical Ultrasonics","volume":" ","pages":"697"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11499419/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142001174","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Current status and future perspectives of contrast-enhanced ultrasound diagnosis of breast lesions.","authors":"Toshikazu Ito, Hironobu Manabe, Michiyo Kubota, Yoshifumi Komoike","doi":"10.1007/s10396-024-01486-0","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10396-024-01486-0","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Advances in various imaging modalities for breast lesions have improved diagnostic capabilities not only for tumors but also for non-tumorous lesions. Contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) plays a crucial role not only in the differential diagnosis of breast lesions, identification of sentinel lymph nodes, and diagnosis of lymph node metastasis but also in assessing the therapeutic effects of neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC). In CEUS, two image interpretation approaches, i.e., qualitative analysis and quantitative analysis, are employed and applied in various clinical settings. In this paper, we review CEUS for breast lesions, including its various applications.</p>","PeriodicalId":50130,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Medical Ultrasonics","volume":" ","pages":"611-625"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11499542/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142037613","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Recent developments in diagnostic ultrasound for lower urinary tract function.","authors":"Tomonori Minagawa","doi":"10.1007/s10396-024-01494-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10396-024-01494-0","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Ultrasonography (US) is an essential tool in the clinical management of lower urinary tract dysfunction (LUTD), including lower urinary tract symptoms, overactive bladder, and benign prostatic hyperplasia, in which prostatic volume and post-void residual volume are routinely used to evaluate the pathophysiological characteristics of afflicted patients. US can also be employed to diagnose hydronephrosis and bladder calculus as complications of severe LUTD. Moreover, US is essential for identifying pathophysiological characteristics and surgical indications, predicting disease development and drug efficacy, and monitoring bladder function improvement by means of such parameters as bladder wall thickness, prostatic urethral length, intravesical prostatic protrusion, and prostatic urethral angulation/angle. Herein, I narratively review the recent advances in US approaches for the management of LUTD, especially in adult males.</p>","PeriodicalId":50130,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Medical Ultrasonics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142331462","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Correction to: Contrast analysis in ultrafast ultrasound blood flow imaging of jugular vein.","authors":"Masaaki Omura, Kunimasa Yagi, Ryo Nagaoka, Hideyuki Hasegawa","doi":"10.1007/s10396-024-01441-z","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10396-024-01441-z","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50130,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Medical Ultrasonics","volume":" ","pages":"547"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11272722/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140194994","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Optimal treatment conditions for low-intensity pulsed ultrasound therapy for Alzheimer's disease: applications from mice to humans.","authors":"Tomohiko Shindo, Kumiko Eguchi, Yuto Monma, Hiroshi Kanai, Satoshi Yasuda, Hiroaki Shimokawa","doi":"10.1007/s10396-024-01461-9","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10396-024-01461-9","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose: </strong>We previously developed a novel therapy with low-intensity pulsed ultrasound (LIPUS) that ameliorates cognitive decline through upregulation of endothelial nitric oxide synthase (eNOS) in mouse models of Alzheimer's disease (AD). In a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled pilot trial, we demonstrated that whole-brain LIPUS therapy is safe and tends to suppress the cognitive decline in early AD patients. We herein report the findings of our basic experiments that we performed for the pilot trial in order to apply whole-brain LIPUS therapy to humans, as well.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>First, we examined the relationship between bone density/thickness and ultrasound transmittance using human temporal bone. Next, based on the results of ultrasound transmittance, we further examined mRNA expression of VEGF, FGF2, and eNOS in response to variable ultrasound frequencies, duty cycles, and sound pressures.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>There was a significant correlation between bone thickness and transmittance (1.0 MHz, P < 0.001), while there was no significant correlation between bone density and transmittance (1.0 MHz, P = 0.421). At a frequency of 0.5 MHz, the optimum duty cycle was considered to be up to 20%. When the tissue amplitude was in the range of 0.05-0.5 MPa, VEGF, FGF2, and eNOS were significantly upregulated by LIPUS. Thus, the conditions necessary for LIPUS therapy for the human brain were identified as sound pressure just below the probe 1.3 MPa (tissue amplitude 0.15 MPa), duty cycle 5%, and frequency 0.5 MHz.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>We successfully identified the optimal treatment conditions for LIPUS therapy for patients with AD.</p>","PeriodicalId":50130,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Medical Ultrasonics","volume":" ","pages":"419-427"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11272751/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140853347","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Preliminary study of standardized semiquantitative method for ultrasonographic breast composition assessment.","authors":"Takayoshi Uematsu, Kazuaki Nakashima, Hatsuko Nasu, Tatsuya Igarashi, Yukiko Okayama, Akifumi Notsu","doi":"10.1007/s10396-024-01463-7","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10396-024-01463-7","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose: </strong>To develop a classification tree via semiquantitative analysis for ultrasonographic breast composition assessment using routine breast ultrasonography examination images.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>This study retrospectively enrolled 100 consecutive normal women who underwent screening mammography and supplemental ultrasonography. Based on sonographic breast composition, the patients' breasts were classified as nondense or dense, which were correlated with mammographic breast composition. Ultrasonographic breast composition was classified based on the fibroglandular tissue (FGT) thickness-to-subcutaneous fat and retromammary fat (FAT) thickness ratio. In addition, the presence of a high glandular tissue component (GTC) in FGT or the presence of evident fat lobules in FGT was investigated. The cutoff point between the nondense and dense breasts was calculated from the area under the curve (AUC).</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>All cases with a high GTC were dense breasts, and all cases with evident fat lobules in the FGT were nondense breasts. The AUC of the FGT thickness-to-FAT ratio of all cases, the group without a high GTC, the group without evident fat lobules in the FGT, and the group without a high GTC or evident fat lobules in the FGT were 0.93, 0.94, 0.99, and 1, respectively.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>The presence of a high GTC indicated dense breasts, and the presence of evident fat lobules in the FGT represented nondense breasts. For the remaining cases, the cutoff point of the FGT thickness-to-FAT thickness ratio was 0.93 for ultrasonographic two-grade scale breast composition assessment with 100% accuracy.</p>","PeriodicalId":50130,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Medical Ultrasonics","volume":" ","pages":"497-505"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11272726/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140874975","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}