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DOI: 10.1055/s-0029-1220174
© Georg Thieme Verlag KG Stuttgart · New York
What's new about Time Intensity Curves
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Publication Date:
16 April 2009 (online)
In daily practice contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) has proven to be helpful for detection and characterisation of liver tumours [EFSUMB-Guidelines and Good Clinical Practice Recommendations for Contrast Enhanced Ultrasound (CEUS) - Update 2008. Ultraschall in Med 2008; 29:28-44], ultrasound guided biopsy, and postablative monitoring after radio frequency ablation (RFA). With the introduction of second generation ultrasound contrast agents allowing real time imaging it is possible to describe the change of brightness over time as a function of ultrasound contrast agents in- and outflow in a certain region of interest, especially when used with current software methods allowing analysing signals of blood pool ultrasound contrast agents without disturbances of underlying tissue background information. In the literature there are many topics in which time intensity curves (TIC) may add substantial information to the information gained by conventional contrast enhanced ultrasound.