The SDMS has collaborated with the Australasian Sonographers Association (ASA), the British Medical Ultrasound Society (BMUS), and Sonography Canada to provide our combined ​contrast resources to the sonography ​profession.

Journal Articles

1. The use of contrast-enhanced ultrasonography for the characterisation of focal liver lesions
2. Retroperitoneal Ewing’s sarcoma in a woman with advanced breast cancer delineated by contrast-enhanced ultrasound: A case study          
3. Barriers to contrast-enhanced ultrasound in New Zealand and proposed solutions

Webinar

1. Contrast ​Enhanced ​Ultrasound (CEUS)

Podcast

1. Contrast ​Ultrasound and ​Elastography

Test Yourself

• Use of CEUS for characterisation of Focal Liver Lesions  Questions
• Use of CEUS for characterisation of Focal Liver Lesions_ Answers

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BMUS ​Poster Presentations

1. Ectopic splenic tissue, the value of contrast enhanced ultrasound
2. Gangrenous cholecystitis: Does Contras Enhanced Ultrasound (CEUS) improve diagnostic accuracy? A systematic review and meta-analysis
3. Retrospective analysis to assess the diagnostic value and accuracy for characterisation of focal lesions with contrast enhanced ultrasound (CEUS)
4. Sonographer Lead Contrast Enhanced Ultrasound Service

EFSUMB Guidelines

1. Guidelines and Good Clinical Practice Recommendations for Contrast Enhanced Ultrasound (CEUS) in the Liver – Update 2012 A WFUMB-EFSUMB Initiative in Cooperation With Representatives of AFSUMB, AIUM, ASUM, FLAUS and ICUS

Top Tips

1. Contrast Enhanced Ultrasound: Technical Top Tips
2. Top 5 Tips for Establishing a CEUS Service

Guidance for the Use of Sonovue

1. Sonovue | BMUS

Journal Articles (​Access Available through March 31)

1. Malignant focal liver lesions at contrast-enhanced ultrasonography and magnetic resonance with hepatospecific contrast agent
2. Contrast sonovenography – Is this the answer to complex deep vein thrombosis imaging?
3. Contrast-enhanced ultrasound of the spleen
4. Prospective comparison of use of contrast-enhanced ultrasound and contrast-enhanced computed tomography in the Bosniak classification of complex renal cysts
5. Benign liver lesions: grey-scale and contrast-enhanced ultrasound appearances
6. The clinical use of contrast-enhanced ultrasound in the kidney
7. Using contrast-enhanced ultrasound to guide a successful biopsy of a splenic sarcomatoid carcinoma
8. The role of contrast-enhanced ultrasound imaging in the follow-up of patients post-endovascular aneurysm repair
9. Contrast-enhanced ultrasound for multiple liver lesions after bone marrow transplant in a child with leukaemia: Multifocal focal nodular hyperplasia
10. A case of adult intussusception with greyscale, contrast-enhanced ultrasound and computerised tomography correlation
11. Management of incidental renal masses: Time to consider contrast-enhanced ultrasonography
12. Contrast-enhanced ultrasound in the evaluation of parotid gland lesions: an update of the literature
13. Contrast-enhanced ultrasound: Extended role outside ‘regulations’
14. Splenogonadal fusion: A rare paratesticular lesion and how to recognise it on ultrasound

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​Journal Articles

1. Ultrasound-Enhancing Agent and IV Administration in Cardiac Sonography: How Sonographers Play a Key Role in Positively Affecting Key Performance Indicators
2. An Asymptomatic, Iatrogenic Hemobilia Detected by Contrast Enhanced Ultrasound of the Gallbladder
3. Unusual Progressive Hepatic Echogenicity of the Pediatric Liver Following Intravenous Sonographic Contrast Administration

Webinars

1. CEUS Success: Troubleshooting for Contrast Ultrasound Abdominal Exams
2. Contrast Enhanced Ultrasound (CEUS) of the Liver

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Journal Articles

1. The Invaluable Role of CEUS in HCC Imaging: Diagnosis, Management Planning, Guidance of Ablative Therapy, and Secondary Surveillance
2. Role of contrast-enhanced ultrasound in evaluation of the bowel

Algorithm

1. Focal Liver Lesions: Algorithm for analysis of enhancement characteristics of focal liver lesions for characterization with CEUS

Presentations

1. Integration of Contrast-enhanced US into a Multimodality Approach to Imaging of Nodules in a Cirrhotic Liver: How I Do It (article with embedded presentation)
2. CEUS and LI-RADS
3. CEUS: Why Aren’t We Doing It?

Acknowledging the work of the University of Calgary and the Foothills Medical Centre in Calgary, Alberta, Canada and the lab and leadership of Dr. Stephanie Wilson