Ultrasound Research Today is a free monthly online journal that collates and summarizes the latest research about Ultrasound, including details on screening, diagnosis, pregnancy, detection.

Volume 5 (2008), Issue 4 (April)

1. Modeling of a high frequency ultrasonic transducer using periodic structures.
   Ultrasonics, 48(2): 141-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
2. In situ 2-D piezoelectric wafer active sensors arrays for guided wave damage detection.
   Ultrasonics, 48(2): 117-34. [Abstract] [Full-text]
3. Effects of electrodes with continuously varying thickness on energy trapping in thickness-shear mode quartz resonators.
   Ultrasonics, 48(2): 150-4. [Abstract] [Full-text]
4. Quinary excitation method for pulse compression ultrasound measurements.
   Ultrasonics, 48(2): 98-108. [Abstract] [Full-text]
5. Study of cell killing effect on S180 by ultrasound activating protoporphyrin IX.
   Ultrasonics, 48(2): 135-40. [Abstract] [Full-text]
6. The Rayleigh-Plesset equation in terms of volume with explicit shear losses.
   Ultrasonics, 48(2): 85-90. [Abstract] [Full-text]
7. Stability of alteplase in presence of cavitation.
   Ultrasonics, 48(2): 109-16. [Abstract] [Full-text]
8. Emergent excision of a prenatally diagnosed sacrococcygeal teratoma.
   Paediatr Anaesth, 18(5): 431-4. [Abstract] [Full-text]
9. Performance of transient elastography for the staging of liver fibrosis: a meta-analysis.
   Gastroenterology, 134(4): 960-74. [Abstract] [Full-text]
10. Ultrasound of malignant cervical lymph nodes.
    Cancer Imaging, 8: 48-56. [Abstract] [Full-text]
11. Effects of left bundle-branch block on cardiac structure, function, perfusion, and perfusion reserve: implications for myocardial contrast echocardiography versus radionuclide perfusion imaging for the detection of coronary artery disease.
    Circulation, 117(14): 1832-41. [Abstract] [Full-text]
12. Matrix-array 3-dimensional echocardiographic assessment of volumes, mass, and ejection fraction in young pediatric patients with a functional single ventricle: a comparison study with cardiac magnetic resonance.
    Circulation, 117(14): 1842-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
13. Prevalence of micro-emboli in symptomatic high grade carotid artery disease: a transcranial Doppler study.
    Eur J Vasc Endovasc Surg, 35(5): 534-40. [Abstract] [Full-text]
14. Effect of cholesterol and ergosterol on the compressibility and volume fluctuations of phospholipid-sterol bilayers in the critical point region: a molecular acoustic and calorimetric study.
    Biophys J, 94(9): 3538-48. [Abstract] [Full-text]
15. Myocardial deformation imaging based on ultrasonic pixel tracking to identify reversible myocardial dysfunction.
    J Am Coll Cardiol, 51(15): 1473-81. [Abstract] [Full-text]
16. Use of an endoscopic ultrasound probe for the evaluation of the Müllerian rudiments in patients with Rokitansky syndrome.
    Fertil Steril, 89(4): 981-3. [Abstract] [Full-text]
17. Do the extent and direction of arterial remodelling predict subsequent progression of coronary atherosclerosis? A serial intravascular ultrasound study.
    Heart, 94(5): 623-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
18. Left ventricular torsion in primary chronic mitral regurgitation.
    Heart, 94(5): 597-603. [Abstract] [Full-text]
19. Three-dimensional characteristics of functional mitral regurgitation in patients with severe left ventricular dysfunction: a real-time three-dimensional colour Doppler echocardiography study.
    Heart, 94(5): 590-6. [Abstract] [Full-text]
20. Neoadjuvant vinorelbine-capecitabine versus docetaxel-doxorubicin-cyclophosphamide in early nonresponsive breast cancer: phase III randomized GeparTrio trial.
    J Natl Cancer Inst, 100(8): 542-51. [Abstract] [Full-text]
21. Combined ultrasound and neurostimulation guidance for popliteal sciatic nerve block: a prospective, randomized comparison with neurostimulation alone.
    Anesth Analg, 106(5): 1553-8, table of contents. [Abstract] [Full-text]
22. In search of the "vulnerable plaque": can it be localized and will focal regional therapy ever be an option for cardiac prevention?
    J Am Coll Cardiol, 51(16): 1539-42. [Abstract] [Full-text]
23. Novel use of ultrasound guidance for recanalization of iliac, femoral, and popliteal arteries.
    Catheter Cardiovasc Interv, 71(6): 727-33. [Abstract] [Full-text]
24. Measurement of carotid intima-media thickness to assess progression and regression of atherosclerosis.
    Nat Clin Pract Cardiovasc Med, 5(5): 280-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
25. Hypertensive response with exercise does not increase the prevalence of abnormal Tc-99m SPECT stress perfusion images.
    Am Heart J, 155(5): 930-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
26. Derivation and validation of a diagnostic model for the evaluation of left ventricular filling pressures and diastolic function using mitral annulus tissue Doppler imaging.
    Am Heart J, 155(5): 924-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
27. Intracardiac echocardiography-guided his bundle pacing and atrioventricular nodal ablation.
    Pacing Clin Electrophysiol, 31(5): 536-42. [Abstract] [Full-text]
28. Mitral valve abnormalities in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: echocardiographic features and surgical outcomes.
    Ann Thorac Surg, 85(5): 1527-35, 1535.e1-2. [Abstract] [Full-text]
29. Quantification of microspheres appearance in brain vessels: implications for residual flow velocity measurements, dose calculations, and potential drug delivery.
    Stroke, 39(5): 1476-81. [Abstract] [Full-text]
30. A pilot randomized clinical safety study of sonothrombolysis augmentation with ultrasound-activated perflutren-lipid microspheres for acute ischemic stroke.
    Stroke, 39(5): 1464-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
31. Cardiac resynchronization therapy in patients with heart failure and atrial fibrillation: importance of new-onset atrial fibrillation and total atrial conduction time.
    Europace, 10(5): 558-65. [Abstract] [Full-text]
32. Sonothrombolysis with transcranial color-coded sonography and recombinant tissue-type plasminogen activator in acute middle cerebral artery main stem occlusion: results from a randomized study.
    Stroke, 39(5): 1470-5. [Abstract] [Full-text]

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