1. Changes in the roles of transrectal ultrasonography for the diagnosis of prostate cancer

   • Atsushi Ochiai

   Editorial 09 January 2017 Pages: 1 - 2

2. Improvement of penetration of modified amplitude and phase estimation beamformer

   • Hideyuki Hasegawa

   Original Article 21 July 2016 Pages: 3 - 11

   

3. Development of ultrasound-assisted fluorescence imaging of indocyanine green

   • Hiroyasu Morikawa
   • Shin Toyota
   • Hiromichi Horinaka

   Original Article 26 August 2016 Pages: 13 - 21

   

4. Analysis of fluctuation for pixel-pair distance in co-occurrence matrix applied to ultrasonic images for diagnosis of liver fibrosis

   • Hiroshi Isono
   • Shinnosuke Hirata
   • Hiroyuki Hachiya

   Original Article 18 October 2016 Pages: 23 - 35

   

5. Dominant factor analysis of B-flow twinkling sign with phantom and simulation data

   • Weijia Lu
   • Bruno Haider

   Original Article 29 September 2016 Pages: 37 - 50

   

6. Improving beamforming performance by phased synthetic aperture imaging in medical ultrasound

   • Masume Sadeghi
   • Ali Mahloojifar

   Original Article 28 October 2016 Pages: 51 - 62

   

7. The role of endoscopic ultrasound in the diagnosis of gallbladder diseases

   • Tanyaporn Chantarojanasiri
   • Yoshiki Hirooka
   • Hidemi Goto

   Review Article 12 September 2016 Pages: 63 - 70

   

8. Real-time three-dimensional echocardiography of left atrial volume and function in patients with severe multi-vessel coronary artery disease

   • Lingjie Yang
   • Li Ma
   • Liyun Liu

   Original Article 02 November 2016 Pages: 71 - 78

   

9. Focal nodular hyperplasia: our experience of 53 Japanese cases

   • Hiroko Naganuma
   • Hideaki Ishida
   • Takako Watanabe

   Original Article 22 August 2016 Pages: 79 - 88

   

10. Central vascular structures as a characteristic finding of regenerative nodules using hepatobiliary phase gadolinium ethoxybenzyl diethylenetriaminepentaacetic acid-enhanced MRI and arterial dominant phase contrast-enhanced US

    • Kazuya Sugimori
    • Kazushi Numata
    • Katsuaki Tanaka

    Original Article 22 October 2016 Pages: 89 - 100

    

11. Evaluation of sorafenib for advanced hepatocellular carcinoma with low α-fetoprotein in arrival time parametric imaging using contrast-enhanced ultrasonography

    • Kazue Shiozawa
    • Manabu Watanabe
    • Yasukiyo Sumino

    Original Article Open access 11 November 2016 Pages: 101 - 107

    

12. Differential diagnosis of idiopathic granulomatous mastitis and breast cancer using acoustic radiation force impulse imaging

    • Memik Teke
    • Fatma Teke
    • Metehan Gumus

    Original Article 27 October 2016 Pages: 109 - 115

    

13. Intrapartum transperineal ultrasound for evaluating uterine contraction intensity in the second stage of labor

    • Miyuki Muramoto
    • Kiyotake Ichizuka
    • Masaaki Nagatsuka

    Original Article 10 November 2016 Pages: 117 - 122

    

14. Ultrasound elastographic evaluation of the median nerve in hemodialysis with carpal tunnel syndrome

    • Hua Xin
    • Hai-yang Hu
    • Jie Li

    Original Article 03 August 2016 Pages: 123 - 131

    

15. Ultrasound findings of diffuse metastasis of gastric signet-ring-cell carcinoma to the thyroid gland

    • Koji Morita
    • Takahiko Sakamoto
    • Toshio Ishikawa

    Case Report Open access 01 October 2016 Pages: 133 - 139

    

16. Congenital renal arteriovenous fistula during the first trimester diagnosed with ultrasonography

    • Mengyun Yao
    • Qiuyan Zhang
    • Yanrong Zhang

    Case Report 09 September 2016 Pages: 141 - 145

    

17. Hemiatrophy of brain: antenatal ultrasonography and MRI/postnatal MRI diagnosis with the introduction of “shifted falx sign”

    • Abhinav Aggarwal
    • Aakriti Kapoor Aggarwal
    • Ashutosh Bansal

    Case Report 28 September 2016 Pages: 147 - 151