Edited image from the publication: scan of the liver of an obese patient. The image quality of the standard ultrasound probe (left) is significantly poorer than that of the high-performance probes ...

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, ...

Hepatic complications contribute to morbidity and mortality after allogeneic hemopoietic SCT. Liver Doppler ultrasound and elastography represent promising methods for pretransplant risk assessment ...

A liver biopsy is a diagnostic procedure that samples a person’s liver tissue to check for any abnormalities. Specialists, such as imaging physicians and diagnostic medical sonographers, may use an ...

Diagnosing liver cancer may have just gotten more straightforward, thanks to a new probe that makes the affected tissue glow yellow. The fluorescent labeling compound—dubbed "Sialyl Lewis Yellow"—was ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A heterogeneous ultrasound pattern may identify children with cystic fibrosis at high risk for development of ...

Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and at the University of Southern California (USC), have developed a small ultrasound sticker that can be worn on the skin to monitor the ...

TUSTIN, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Liver disease is one of the major challenges in imaging today, and accurately determining compensated advanced chronic liver disease (cACLD) is extremely important in ...

Over 800,000 people are diagnosed with liver cancer every year worldwide, and it accounts for more than 700,000 cancer deaths annually. Traditional treatment involves surgery, radiation therapy, ...

Researchers evaluate tumor recurrence and metastases after using a non-invasive ultrasound treatment, called histotripsy, on liver cancer in rats. Histotripsy is the first non-ionizing and non-thermal ...