1. Safety of ultrasound diagnosis

   • Hiroyuki Hachiya

   EDITORIAL 22 December 2006 Pages: 195 - 195

2. Volume measurement of a pediatric ventricular phantom model using three-dimensional echocardiography

   • Mayu Iino
   • Hirohiko Shiraishi
   • Mariko Y. Momoi

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE 22 December 2006 Pages: 197 - 201

3. Usefulness of measurement of carotid arterial wall elasticity distribution in detection of early-stage atherosclerotic lesions caused by cigarette smoking

   • Toshio Yamagishi
   • Makoto Kato
   • Hiroshi Kanai

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE 22 December 2006 Pages: 203 - 210

4. Aging and transmitral flow pattern in patients with systemic hypertension

   • Yukari Kishida
   • Nobuaki Tanaka
   • Masunori Matsuzaki

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE 22 December 2006 Pages: 211 - 215

5. Predicting prognosis based on the shape of the left ventricular cavity in dilated cardiomyopathy: analysis using rate of improvement in the circle index

   • Yuichi Hirano
   • Hiroyuki Kayano
   • Keisuke Abe

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE 22 December 2006 Pages: 217 - 224

6. Relationship between spontaneous echo contrast in the thoracic aorta and plasma von Willebrand factor

   • Takuya Inoue
   • Makoto Suzuki
   • Kaoru Sugi

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE 22 December 2006 Pages: 225 - 230

7. Transabdominal sonographic appearance of adult colonic polyps

   • Koichi Yabunaka
   • Shigeru Sanada
   • Masayuki Fujioka

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE 22 December 2006 Pages: 231 - 237

8. Establishment of seminars to improve the diagnostic accuracy and effectiveness of breast ultrasound

   • Eriko Tohno
   • Kiyoshi Sawai
   • Etsuo Takada

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE 22 December 2006 Pages: 239 - 244

9. Interventional ultrasound for adrenal masses

   • Hiroshi Yokoyama
   • Ichiro Konomi
   • Masatoshi Tanaka

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE 22 December 2006 Pages: 245 - 249

10. Isolated gastric varices due to pancreatic cancer

    • Akiko Sato
    • Hideaki Ishida
    • Hitoshi Yagisawa

    ULTRASOUND IMAGE OF THE MONTH 22 December 2006 Pages: 251 - 252

11. Pancreatic metastasis from lung cancer

    • Yumi Katsuura
    • Hideaki Ishida
    • Hirokazu Kurokawa

    ULTRASOUND IMAGE OF THE MONTH 22 December 2006 Pages: 253 - 254

12. Spontaneous ruptured hepatic malignant fibrous histiocytoma

    • Akiko Sato
    • Hideaki Ishida
    • Hitoshi Yagisawa

    ULTRASOUND IMAGE OF THE MONTH 22 December 2006 Pages: 255 - 256

13. Gallbladder varices

    • Akiko Sato
    • Hideaki Ishida
    • Hirokazu Kurokawa

    Erratum 21 December 2006 Pages: 257 - 257