Giovanni Regine • Maurizio Atzori
Romano Fabbri

2013

The ever-increasing return to the use of ultrasound contrast media has eliminated, or is in the process of eliminating, a kind of subordination of this method in comparison with other imaging technologies, such as TC or RM, considered to be more accurate, and therefore better for diagnosis. Yet, for a number of years now ultrasound has found its contrast media which, in the form of microbubbles, has given the technique a notable ‘effervescence’, opening the way for many new tools, both diagnostic and in the future probably also treatments, which were
before unthinkable.