What Is a Liver Ultrasound? A liver ultrasound is a type of abdominal ultrasound, an imaging test that uses high-frequency sound waves to create pictures of the organs and structures in your abdomen, ...

Background and Aim: Currently, an increasing number of liver biopsies are performed by radiologists under real-time ultrasound control. A routine ultrasound assessment of a puncture site before ...

CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Patients with liver diseases will have expanded access to advanced ultrasound imaging and transplant options, thanks to new policy allowing doctors to use contrast-enhanced ...

A new ultrasound-based treatment that destroys liver cancer tumours without surgery or radiation will be offered to NHS patients this summer in a European first. The therapy, called histotripsy, is a ...

Histotripsy is a new, FDA-approved, minimally invasive technique that destroys liver tumors using high-frequency ultrasound waves. For some patients with liver cancer, they could be spared invasive ...

The technology has some promising applications, but is not ready for whole body cancer screening and will not replace other imaging tools.

Researchers develop an expert consensus to standardize the use of UDFF in clinical practice through an extensive literature review, expert experience, and the consideration of the latest advances in ...

Patients with colorectal cancer (CRC) liver metastases had reduced risk of intrahepatic recurrence when using intraoperative contrast-enhanced ultrasounds. A new study published in Digestive and Liver ...

A new ultrasound-guided nanotherapy wipes out liver tumors while training the immune system to keep them from coming back. Study: Sonodynamic biodegradable pseduo-conjugate polymer delivery of ...

The liver is one of the hardest-working organs in the human body. It performs hundreds of important jobs every day to keep us ...