Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound of Liver Diseases

In the last few years, the development of sonographic contrast agents - or "microbubbles" - has stimulated increasingly intensive studies on the rela­ tionships between ultrasound and contrast media. As a result, "contrast -spe­ cific" hardware and software systems have been introduced by different ultra­ sound manufacturers with impressive speed. This has finally led to the birth of a very new imaging modality -"contrast-enhanced sonography" (CEUS). Since 1999, the introduction of second-genera