1. State of the “Fine” art in the age of artificial intelligence

   • Eizaburo Ohno

   Editorial 28 March 2019 Pages: 175 - 175

2. Effects of Clematis chinensis Osbeck mediated by low-intensity pulsed ultrasound on transforming growth factor-β/Smad signaling in rabbit articular chondrocytes

   • Ya-lan Pan
   • Yong Ma
   • Gui-cheng Huang

   Original Article 18 January 2019 Pages: 177 - 186

   

3. Identification of vascular lumen by singular value decomposition filtering on blood flow velocity distribution

   • Ryo Nagaoka
   • Hideyuki Hasegawa

   Original Article 24 January 2019 Pages: 187 - 194

   

4. The relationship of spleen stiffness value measured by shear wave elastography with age, gender, and spleen size in healthy volunteers

   • Eda Albayrak
   • Sadık Server

   Original Article 28 January 2019 Pages: 195 - 199

   

5. Associations of temporal changes in cervical length and lower uterine segment length with spontaneous preterm delivery risk: a prospective study of 727 Japanese women

   • Rie Oi
   • Naoyuki Miyasaka
   • Tomoko Adachi

   Original Article 01 December 2018 Pages: 201 - 207

   

6. An ultrasonographic estimated fetal weight reference for Japanese twin pregnancies

   • Masaki Sekiguchi
   • Masashi Mikami
   • Haruhiko Sago

   Original Article Open access 27 December 2018 Pages: 209 - 215

   

7. Clinical application of ultrasound-guided percutaneous microwave ablation in the treatment of T1aN0M0 stage renal carcinoma

   • Guoqing Sui
   • Qiang Luo
   • Hui Wang

   Original Article 18 December 2018 Pages: 217 - 222

   

8. Relationship of blood flow in the common iliac vein to lower urinary tract disease

   • Kimio Sugaya
   • Katsumi Kadekawa
   • Hideyuki Yamamoto

   Original Article 08 February 2019 Pages: 223 - 229

   

9. A comparative study of shear wave elastography in the evaluation of undescended and retractile testes in a pediatric population

   • Onder Turna
   • Deniz Alis

   Original Article 08 January 2019 Pages: 231 - 237

   

10. Cancer therapeutics-related cardiac dysfunction in a patient treated with abiraterone for castration-resistant prostate cancer

    • Toshimitsu Tsugu
    • Yuji Nagatomo
    • Hideo Mitamura

    Case Report 27 August 2018 Pages: 239 - 243

    

11. Coil embolization of pseudoaneurysm as a complication of excimer laser coronary angioplasty: insights from intravascular ultrasound and optical coherence tomography findings

    • Ruka Yoshida
    • Kensuke Takagi
    • Hideyuki Tsuboi

    Case Report 10 October 2018 Pages: 245 - 249

    

12. High-intensity focused ultrasound ablation: a non-surgical approach to treat advanced and complicated liver alveococcosis

    • Nurlan Zhampeissov
    • Erlan Manap
    • Abduzhappar Gaipov

    Case Report 23 October 2018 Pages: 251 - 255

    

13. Preoperative diagnosis of a giant cell tumor of soft tissue arising from the breast by ultrasound-guided core needle biopsy

    • Aya Sawa
    • Tatsuhiko Ikeda
    • Hisato Hara

    Case Report 30 July 2018 Pages: 257 - 261

    

14. Prenatal findings of serpentine-like syndrome with congenital intrathoracic stomach: differential diagnosis from congenital diaphragmatic hernia

    • Kazuya Mimura
    • Masayuki Endo
    • Tadashi Kimura

    Case Report 09 August 2018 Pages: 263 - 266

    

15. Ultrasound evaluation of fetal critical aortic stenosis using the left atrium area/cardiac area ratio and the Doppler patterns in the pulmonary veins

    • Sachi Sukegawa
    • Yuka Yamamoto
    • Naoki Mitsuhashi

    Case Report 04 October 2018 Pages: 267 - 272

    

16. Persistent truncus arteriosus with absent semilunar valve in first trimester

    • Shui-hua Yang
    • Xue-qin Li
    • Hong-wei Wei

    Case Report 14 January 2019 Pages: 273 - 275

    

17. Echogenic lymph nodes in the differential diagnosis of pediatric sarcoidosis

    • Zuhal Bayramoglu
    • Ibrahim Adaletli
    • Rukiye Eker Omeroglu

    Case Report 08 February 2019 Pages: 277 - 281

    

18. Standardization of diagnostic and therapeutic ultrasound and the pitfalls of standardization

    • Yoshiki Hirooka

    Editor's Note 28 March 2019 Pages: 283 - 284