Far-Wall Pseudoenhancement During Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound of the Carotid Arteries: Clinical Description and In Vitro Reproduction

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 593-600

  ten Kate, Gerrit L ^a   Renaud, Guillaume G J ^a   Akkus, Zeynettin ^a   van den Oord, Stijn C H ^a   ten Cate, Folkert J ^a   Shamdasani, Vijay ^b   Entrekin, Rob R ^b   Sijbrands, Eric J G ^a   de Jong, Nico ^a   Bosch, Johan G ^a   Schinkel, Arend F L ^a   van der Steen, Antonius F W ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b PHILIPS HEALTHCARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Attenuation; Carotid artery; Contrast enhanced ultrasound; Imaging artifact; Microbubbles; Nonlinear propagation; Pseudoenhancement; Vascular ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION; CAROTID ARTERY; CONTRAST ENHANCED ULTRASOUND; IMAGING ARTIFACT; MICROBUBBLES; NONLINEAR PROPAGATION; PSEUDOENHANCEMENT; VASCULAR ULTRASOUND;

TISSUE; ULTRASONIC EQUIPMENT;

ULTRASONICS;

ADULT; ANATOMIC LANDMARK; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; CAROTID ARTERY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IN VITRO STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY;

ARTIFACTS; CAROTID ARTERIES; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PHOSPHOLIPIDS; SULFUR HEXAFLUORIDE;

EID: 84857801135     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: 1879291X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2011.12.019     Document Type: Article

References (19)

1. Bouakaz A., de Jong N., Cachard C., Jouini K. On the effect of lung filtering and cardiac pressure on the standard properties of ultrasound contrast agent. Ultrasonics 1998, 36:703-708.
2. Chen Q., Zagzebski J., Wilson T., Stiles T. Pressure-dependent attenuation in ultrasound contrast agents. Ultrasound Med Biol 2002, 28:1041-1051.
3. Emmer M., Vos H.J., Goertz D.E., van Wamel A., Versluis M., de Jong N. Pressure-dependent attenuation and scattering of phospholipid-coated microbubbles at low acoustic pressures. Ultrasound Med Biol 2009, 35:102-111.
4. Feinstein S.B. Contrast ultrasound imaging of the carotid artery vasa vasorum and atherosclerotic plaque neovascularization. J Am Coll Cardiol 2006, 48:236-243.
5. Gorce J.M., Arditi M., Schneider M. Influence of bubble size distribution on the echogenicity of ultrasound contrast agents: A study of SonoVue™. Invest Radiol 2000, 35:661-671.
6. Kono Y., Pinnell S.P., Sirlin C.B., Sparks S.R., Georgy B., Wong W., Mattrey R.F. Carotid arteries: Contrast-enhanced US angiography-Preliminary clinical experience. Radiology 2004, 230:561-568.
7. Macioch J.E., Katsamakis C.D., Robin J., Liebson P.R., Meyer P.M., Geohas C., Raichlen J.S., Davidson M.H., Feinstein S.B. Effect of contrast enhancement on measurement of carotid artery intimal medial thickness. Vasc Med 2004, 9:7-12.
8. Mulligan-Kehoe M.J. The vasa vasorum in diseased and nondiseased arteries. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 2010, 298:H295-H305.
9. Powers J., Averkiou M., Bruce M. Principles of cerebral ultrasound contrast imaging. Cerebrovasc Dis 2009, 27:14-24.
10. Ritman E.L., Lerman A. The dynamic vasa vasorum. Cardiovasc Res 2007, 75:649-658.
11. Schneider M. Characteristics of SonoVue™. Echocardiography 1999, 16:743-746.
12. Staub D., Schinkel A.F.L., Coll B., Coli S., van der Steen A.F.W., Reed J.D., Krueger C., Thomenius K.E., Adam D., Sijbrands E.J., ten Cate F.J., Feinstein S.B. Contrast-enhanced ultrasound imaging of the vasa vasorum: From early atherosclerosis to the identification of unstable plaques. JACC Cardiovasc Imaging 2010, 3:761-771.
13. Tang M.X., Eckersley R. Nonlinear propagation of ultrasound through microbubble contrast agents and implications for imaging. IEEE Trans Ultrason Ferroelectr Freq Control 2006, 53:2406-2415.
14. Tang M.X., Eckersley R.J. Frequency and pressure dependent attenuation and scattering by microbubbles. Ultrasound Med Biol 2007, 33:164-168.
15. Tang M.X., Eckersley R.J., Noble J.A. Pressure-dependent attenuation with microbubbles at low mechanical index. Ultrasound Med Biol 2005, 31:377-384.
16. Tang M.X., Kamiyama N., Eckersley R.J. Effects of nonlinear propagation in ultrasound contrast agent imaging. Ultrasound Med Biol 2010, 36:459-466.
17. Teirlinck C.J.P.M., Bezemer R.A., Kollmann C., Lubbers J., Hoskins P.R., Fish P., Fredfeldt K.E., Schaarschmidt U.G. Development of an example flow test object and comparison of five of these test objects, constructed in various laboratories. Ultrasonics 1998, 36:653-660.
18. Wu J., Tong J. Measurements of the nonlinearity parameter B/A of contrast agents. Ultrasound Med Biol 1998, 24:153-159.
19. Yu H., Jang H., Kim T., Khalili K., Williams R., Lueck G., Hudson J., Burns P. Pseudoenhancement within the local ablation zone of hepatic tumors due to a nonlinear artifact on contrast-enhanced ultrasound. AJR Am J Roentgenol 2010, 194:65365-65369.