ArticleBMC medical imaging2021
Correlation and agreement between superb micro-vascular imaging and contrast-enhanced ultrasound for assessing radiofrequency ablation treatment of thyroid nodules: a preliminary study.
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- Microvascular Ultrasonography Vascularity Index as a Rapid and Simplified Assessment Tool for Differentiating Graves' Disease from Destructive Thyroiditis and Managing Thyrotoxicosis.Endocrinology and metabolism (Seoul, Korea) · 2025Article
- Effectiveness of microvascular flow imaging for radiofrequency ablation in recurrent thyroid cancer: comparison with power Doppler imaging.European radiology · 2025Article
- Letter to Editor: Enhancing methodological rigour in the evaluation of microvascular flow imaging for recurrent thyroid cancer.European radiology · 2025Article
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- Comparison of micro-flow imaging and contrast-enhanced ultrasound in monitoring microwave ablation of papillary thyroid carcinoma: efficacy, safety, and cost-effectiveness.Frontiers in oncology · 2025Article
- Microvascular flow imaging of fibroids: A prospective pilot study.Acta obstetricia et gynecologica Scandinavica · 2024Article
- Value of CEUS combined with feeding artery ablation in the microwave ablation of large solid benign thyroid nodules.European radiology · 2023Article
- Short- and long-term reproducibility of peripheral superficial vein depth and diameter measurements using ultrasound imaging.BMC medical imaging · 2022Article
- Efficacy and safety of radiofrequency ablation for calcified benign thyroid nodules: results of over 5 years' follow-up.BMC medical imaging · 2022Article
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Abstract
backgroundTo evaluate the correlation and agreement between superb micro-vascular imaging (SMI) mode and the contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) mode for the ablative completeness and the volumes of ablation lesions to determine the clinical application value of SMI in follow-up after radiofrequency ablation.
methodsFrom April 2020 to June 2020, two radiologists used SMI and CEUS mode to measure the volume of the ablation lesion. We use intra-class correlation coefficient (ICC), scatter plots and Bland-Altman plots to evaluate the correlation and agreement of the two techniques. In addition, intra- and inter-observer reliability in volume measurement of ablation lesions with SMI mode was assessed.
resultsSMI mode and CEUS mode have good agreement in the evaluation of ablative completeness. The ICC was 0.876 and 0.928 of reader A and reader B between SMI mode and CEUS mode in terms of ablation lesions volume measurement. There was a strong correlation between the two modes in both reader A and reader B (r
conclusionsSMI and CEUS have good agreement and correlation in the ablation volume measurement. SMI technology is expected to be applied as an alternative to CEUS in the clinical follow-up of ablation lesions.
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