OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Medical Ultrasonics is 3. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Contrast-enhanced ultrasonographic findings in torsion of the appendix testis or epididymis in children: a case series	23
Myocardial infiltration of B-cell lymphoblastic lymphoma detected by speckle tracking echocardiography: the importance of segmental longitudinal strain	21
The significance of ultrasonic characteristics in adventitial cystic disease	19
Two cases showing alterations of the order of tricuspid and mitral valve opening during loading manipulations: a new approach for quick assessment of stress-induced left ventricular filling pressure e	18
Focused ultrasound therapy for neurological disease	18
Prediction of ischemic stroke in elderly hypertensive patients using carotid plaque superb microvascular imaging characteristics: a lasso-logistic regression model	18
Assessment of drainage vein of focal nodular hyperplasia using contrast-enhanced ultrasound	17
Lobular carcinoma in situ detectable as a mass on ultrasonography: a case report	16
Recurrent ovarian hemangioma extending via the inferior vena cava to the right heart mimicking leiomyomatosis and visualized by echocardiography	16
Effect of introducing ultrasonography in medical examinations for elbow injuries among young baseball players	15
Diagnostic performance of ultrasound attenuation imaging in detecting hepatic steatosis	14
Current status and future perspective of sonodynamic therapy for cancer	13
Prenatal imaging of a fetus with the rare combination of Pfeiffer syndrome and hypoplastic left heart syndrome	12
Relationship between the change in infrapatellar fat pad thickness assessed using ultrasonography and anterior knee pain on squatting after anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction	12
Quantitative dynamic evaluation of the talus–lateral malleolus distance during forward single-leg drop landing in individuals with chronic ankle instability: a cross-sectional study	12
Ultrasound can provide an early assessment of infection of cartilage structures in infants	11
Assessment of hepatic veno-occlusive disease/sinusoidal obstruction syndrome using different scanning approaches for the ultrasonographic evaluation of portal vein blood flow and hepatic artery resist	11
Basic practices for gastrointestinal ultrasound	11
Changes in proximal colon on intestinal ultrasound indicate the efficacy of induction therapy for active ulcerative colitis	10
Utility of ultrasonography for predicting indications for tolvaptan in patients with autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease	10
The effect of attenuation inside the acoustic traps on the configuration of vertical artifacts in lung ultrasound: an experimental study with simple models	9
Acoustic radiation force impulse (push pulse)-induced lung hemorrhage: investigating the effect of ultrasound contrast agent in rabbits	9
Ultrasound features of periosteal abnormalities in children	9
Isolated portal vein thrombus due to contraceptive low-dose estrogen progestin use	9
Ultrasound diagnosis of non-mass MRI-detected lesions	9

Assessment of the risk of disease transmission during fine-needle aspiration cytology under ultrasound guidance by visualization of droplet and aerosol formation	9
The efficacy of ultrasonography for the detection of upper tract urothelial carcinoma	9
Acknowlegment to Reviewers	9
Correction to: Acoustic radiation force impulse-induced lung hemorrhage: investigating the relationship with peak rarefactional pressure amplitude and mechanical index in rabbits	9
Convolutional neural network classification of ultrasound parametric images based on echo-envelope statistics for the quantitative diagnosis of liver steatosis	8
Reply to comment on RE: Restricted morphological changes in infrapatellar fat pad during walking is revealed as a dynamics feature in symptomatic knee osteoarthritis	8
Enhanced manipulation technique for ultrasound-guided cervical nerve root block to improve shoulder external rotation in frozen shoulder: a retrospective study	8
Treatment of secondary mitral regurgitation by transcatheter edge-to-edge repair using MitraClip	8
B-mode shear wave elastography can be an alternative method to vibration-controlled transient elastography according to a moderate-scale population study	8
Correction: Application of four-section approach for prenatal diagnosis of Pierre robin sequence	8
A review of my history of research on ultrasound tissue characterization of chronic liver disease for developing ultrasound clinical technology	8
Ultrasound synthetic aperture imaging with SpecularNet for enhanced needle visualization	8
Correction: Relationship between ultrasonographic findings and subscales of the Knee Injury and Osteoarthritis Outcome Score in patients with early knee osteoarthritis: a multicenter study	8
New modified technique of hydrogel spacer implantation for prostate cancer: a novel method for separation at the prostate apex level under real-time ultrasound guidance	8
Diagnostic performance of two-dimensional shear wave elastography and attenuation imaging for fibrosis and steatosis assessment in chronic liver disease	8
Right ventricular free wall longitudinal strain assessment using offline speckle tracking in COVID-19 patients requiring intensive medical care	7
Acknowledgment to reviewers	7
Reply to comments on association between the type of pacemaker and progression of tricuspid regurgitation	6
Relationship between knee joint angles and infrapatellar fat pad stiffness in patients with knee osteoarthritis	6
Correction: Clinicopathological and ultrasound characteristics of breast cancer in BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation carriers	6
Evaluation of operator variability and technical accuracy of automatic image-based registration in liver fusion imaging	6
Comparison of the clinical and pathological characteristics of ultrasound-guided biopsy for breast masses and non-mass lesions between 16-gauge spring-loaded core needle biopsy and 12-gauge spring-loa	6
Cardiomyopathy with anti-mitochondrial M2 antibody-positive myositis	6
Correction: Basic practices for gastrointestinal ultrasound	6
Supravalvular aortic stenosis caused by compression of a pseudoaneurysm late after aortic root replacement	6
Comparison of strain elastography and shear wave elastography in diagnosis of fibrosis in nonalcoholic fatty liver disease	6
Correction: Relationship between shear elastic modulus and passive muscle force in human hamstring muscles using a Thiel soft-embalmed cadaver	6
Contrast-enhanced ultrasound findings in testicular torsion and non-testicular torsion	5
Ultrasound diagnostic criteria for thyroid nodules around the world and artificial intelligence	5
Assessment of lower urinary tract function in pediatrics using ultrasonography	5
Multiple myeloma with an intra-abdominal lesion as a rare extramedullary lesion diagnosed with endoscopic ultrasound-guided tissue acquisition	5
High-intensity focused ultrasound treatment for hepatocellular carcinoma	5
Prenatal diagnosis of total anomalous pulmonary venous connection with vertical vein branching into two	5
Ablation manual for liver cancer	5
Endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine-needle aspiration for gastrointestinal subepithelial lesions	5
An ultrasound-based radiomics model for survival prediction in patients with endometrial cancer	5
Enhancing deep-seated hepatocellular carcinoma detection: assessing the added value of high mechanical index setting in sonazoid-based contrast-enhanced ultrasound during post-vascular phase	5
Successful percutaneous balloon pulmonary valvuloplasty for pulmonary stenosis associated with a quadricuspid pulmonary valve in a neonate	5
Comments on “Ultrasound-guided adductor canal block is superior to femoral nerve block for early postoperative pain relief after single-bundle anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction with hamstring	5
Clinicopathological and ultrasound characteristics of breast cancer in BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation carriers	4
Point-of-care ultrasound in the head and neck region	4
Re: Restricted morphological changes in infrapatellar fat pad during walking is revealed as a dynamics feature in symptomatic knee osteoarthritis	4
Correlation between pathology and quantitative ultrasonographic evaluation of pancreatic fat with ultrasonographic classification	4
Reply to comment on predicting the risk stratification of gastrointestinal stromal tumors using machine learning‑based ultrasound radiomics	4
Correction: Third-look contrast-enhanced ultrasonography plus needle biopsy for differential diagnosis of magnetic resonance imaging-only detected breast lesions	4
Features of ductal carcinoma in situ ultrasound images	4
Tissue processing of endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine-needle aspiration specimens from solid pancreatic lesions	4
Progressive left atrial dissection caused by chronic eccentric mitral regurgitant jet	4
Understanding the differences between Japanese and U.S. guidelines on clinical practice for contrast-enhanced ultrasound of the liver	4
A case of nodular fasciitis that appeared in the breast and required differentiation from a malignant tumor	4

Cumulative knee adduction moment during jogging causes temporary medial meniscus extrusion in healthy volunteers	4
Correction: Point-of-care ultrasonography for the diagnosis and manual detorsion of testicular torsion	4
Use of contrast-enhanced harmonic endoscopic ultrasonography for the diagnosis of pancreatic cystic lesions	4
Spontaneous dichorionic diamniotic twin pregnancy simultaneously implanted in a cesarean scar	4
Dynamic response of medial meniscus extrusion to the lateral wedge insole is correlated with immediate pain reduction in knee osteoarthritis patients: real-time ultrasonographic study	4
First tarsometatarsal joint mobility in hallux valgus during gait: A synchronized ultrasound and three-dimensional motion capture analysis	4
Relationship between shear elastic modulus and passive muscle force in human hamstring muscles using a Thiel soft-embalmed cadaver	3
Reliability of liver stiffness measurements using shear wave elastography: impact of skin-to-capsule distance and subcutaneous tissue structure	3
Beside you, POCUS (Point-of-care ultrasound)	3
A review of MRI (CT)/US fusion imaging in treatment of breast cancer	3
Enhancing thrombolytic therapy in Japan-dwelling Japanese using clinical ultrasound with microbubble contrast agent	3
Evaluation of meniscus extrusion during stair ambulation in healthy volunteers using dynamic ultrasonography: a feasibility study	3
Understanding the basics and clinical applications of contrast-enhanced ultrasound for breast lesions	3
Correction: Evaluation of meniscus extrusion during stair ambulation in healthy volunteers using dynamic ultrasonography: a feasibility study	3
Unveiling residual defects decades after surgery: the role of transesophageal echocardiography in diagnosing unidentified congenital heart disease presenting with dyspnea in adulthood	3
The past and future of high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) treatment	3
A case of fetal hydrops caused by generalized arterial calcification of infancy	3
Deep learning algorithm for predicting preterm birth in the case of threatened preterm labor admissions using transvaginal ultrasound	3
Usefulness of carotid duplex ultrasonography in predicting residual large-vessel occlusions after intravenous recombinant tissue plasminogen activator therapy in patients with acute ischemic stroke	3
Endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration (EBUS-TBNA): revolutionizing the landscape of lung disease diagnostics	3
Restricted morphological changes in infrapatellar fat pad during walking is revealed as a dynamics feature in symptomatic knee osteoarthritis	3
Evaluation of levator ani muscle elasticity after vaginal delivery and cesarean section using shear wave elastography	3
Sonazoid-enhanced ultrasound images of multiacinar cirrhotic nodules showing a “donut-like” hyperintense appearance on Gd-EOB-MRI: a case report	3
A case of portal vein gas due to accidental ingestion of hydrogen peroxide: the importance of performing ultrasound examinations over time	3
Evaluation of atezolizumab plus bevacizumab combination therapy for hepatocellular carcinoma using contrast-enhanced ultrasonography	3
Prenatal diagnosis and outcome of meso/dextrocardia: a single-center report of 29 cases	3
Deep attenuation transducer to measure liver stiffness in obese patients with liver disease	3
Contrast-enhanced ultrasound in renal cystic lesions: an update	3
Effectiveness of a voiding evaluation technique using a diaper equipped with a urination-activated alarm system to assess bladder function and voiding patterns in infants	3
Ultrasonographic diagnosis of cervical lymph nodes	3
Anterolateral hip injection approach under portable ultrasound guidance: a prospective randomized controlled trial versus conventional ultrasound	3
Correction: Characterization of breast changes in the early gestational period on automated breast ultrasound	3
Multicenter study of fetal crown-rump length measurement using 3D ultrasound in assisted reproductive technology pregnancies	3
People say that the long nights of autumn are conducive to research and writing papers, but…	3
Association of activities of daily living and cognitive function with thickness of the upper extremity muscles in children and adults with cerebral palsy	3