1. MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT

   • Yutaka Atomi

   MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT Pages: 1 - 1

2. EDITORIAL

   • Hiroshi Natori

   EDITORIAL Pages: 3 - 3

3. Estimation of Doppler shift frequency using selected phase information for high frame rate color flow mapping

   • Naohiko Tanaka
   • Shigeo Ohtsuki

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 5 - 12

4. Texture analysis with a new method in which the region of interest is segmented into multiple layers for radiofrequency amplitude histogram analysis of fibrous rat livers

   • Yasutomo Fujii
   • Nobuyuki Taniguchi
   • Kouichi Itoh

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 13 - 20

5. Diagnosis of acute cholecystitis in patients with liver cirrhosis: waveform analysis of the cystic artery by color Doppler imaging

   • Hitoshi Tochio
   • Shin-ichi Nishiuma
   • Masatoshi Kudo

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 21 - 28

6. Analysis of clinical background in patients with vegetation-like echoes: importance of clinical information

   • Shuichi Takahashi
   • Kanji Iga
   • Takashi Konishi

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 29 - 33

7. Ultrasonically induced cell damage and membrane lipid peroxidation by photofrin II: mechanism of sonodynamic activation

   • Nagahiko Yumita
   • Shin-ichiro Umemura

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 35 - 40

8. Case of hemorrhagic pancreatic pseudocyst in which ultrasound imaging was useful

   • Kouki Ido
   • Kuniko Isobe
   • Toru Yokota

   CASE REPORT Pages: 41 - 45