OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Medical Ultrasonics is 2. 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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Point-of-care lung ultrasound for the assessment of pneumonia: a narrative review in the COVID-19 era	28
Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease and nonalcoholic steatohepatitis: new trends and role of ultrasonography	19
Role of endoscopic ultrasound for gallbladder disease	17
Advances in ultrasound elastography for nonalcoholic fatty liver disease	16
Quantitative assessment of liver steatosis using ultrasound controlled attenuation parameter (Echosens)	14
Present status of ultrasound elastography for the diagnosis of pancreatic tumors: review of the literature	13
Association between medial meniscus extrusion under weight-bearing conditions and pain in early-stage knee osteoarthritis	13
Investigation of feasibility of singular value decomposition clutter filter in plane wave imaging with packet transmission sequence	13
Basic concept and clinical applications of quantitative ultrasound (QUS) technologies	12
Normative values of pancreas stiffness by shear wave elastography in healthy children and adolescents	12
Ultrasonography in undergraduate medical education: a comprehensive review and the education program implemented at Jichi Medical University	12
High-intensity focused ultrasound therapy for pancreatic cancer	11
How to standardize the measurement of left ventricular ejection fraction	11
Attenuation coefficient (ATT) measurement for liver fat quantification in chronic liver disease	11
A review of physical and engineering factors potentially affecting shear wave elastography	11
Advances in ultrasonography: image formation and quality assessment	10
The utility of shear wave elastography in the evaluation of muscle stiffness in patients with cerebral palsy after botulinum toxin A injection	10
Histopathological findings of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease and nonalcoholic steatohepatitis	9
Relationship between shear elastic modulus and passive force of the human rectus femoris at multiple sites: a Thiel soft-embalmed cadaver study	9
Preliminary study on the separation of specular reflection and backscattering components using synthetic aperture beamforming	9
Cardiac and vascular point-of-care ultrasound: current situation, problems, and future prospects	9
Magnetic resonance imaging for the assessment of pathological hepatic findings in nonalcoholic fatty liver disease	9
Diagnostic accuracy of ultrasound-guided attenuation parameter as a noninvasive test for steatosis in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease	9
Quantitative assessment of fatty liver using ultrasound attenuation imaging	9
Measurement of flow velocity vectors in carotid artery using plane wave imaging with repeated transmit sequence	8

The role of endoscopic ultrasound for portal hypertension in liver cirrhosis	8
Enhancement of astaxanthin incorporation by pulsed high-intensity ultrasound in LPS-stimulated macrophages	8
Non-mass lesions on breast ultrasound: why does not the ACR BI-RADS breast ultrasound lexicon add the terminology?	7
Imaging diagnosis of autoimmune pancreatitis using endoscopic ultrasonography	7
Artificial intelligence in the diagnosis of cirrhosis and portal hypertension	7
Application of ultrasound for the diagnosis of cirrhosis/portal hypertension	7
Comparison of lung ultrasonography findings with chest computed tomography results in coronavirus (COVID-19) pneumonia	7
Elucidation of spleen elasticity and viscosity in a carbon tetrachloride rat model of liver cirrhosis using a new ultrasound elastography	7
Reliability of shoulder muscle stiffness measurement using strain ultrasound elastography and an acoustic coupler	7
Evaluation method of the degree of red blood cell aggregation considering ultrasonic propagation attenuation by analyzing ultrasonic backscattering properties	7
Comparison of sonographic findings between pediatric patients with mediastinitis and without mediastinitis after cardiovascular surgery	7
The roles of global longitudinal strain imaging in contemporary clinical cardiology	6
MRI-derived proton density fat fraction	6
Shear wave speed measurement bias in a viscoelastic phantom across six ultrasound elastography systems: a comparative study with transient elastography and magnetic resonance elastography	6
Machine learning-enabled quantitative ultrasound techniques for tissue differentiation	6
Point-of-care ultrasound in the head and neck region	6
What is the role of measuring shear wave dispersion using shear wave elastography in pancreatic parenchyma?	6
Everything you need to know about ultrasound for diagnosis of gallbladder diseases	6
Imaging diagnosis of autoimmune pancreatitis: computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging	6
Ultrasound and microbubble-mediated drug delivery and immunotherapy	6
Evaluation of an MRI/US fusion technique for the detection of non-mass enhancement of breast lesions detected by MRI yet occult on conventional B-mode second-look US	6
Diagnostic accuracy of transient elastography in diagnosing clinically significant portal hypertension in patients with chronic liver disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis	5
A study on the inconsistency of arterial phase hypervascularity detection between contrast-enhanced ultrasound using sonazoid and gadolinium-ethoxybenzyl-diethylenetriamine penta-acetic acid magnetic	5
Effect of the size of benign thyroid degenerative nodules on ACR TI-RADS categories	5
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	5
B-mode ultrasound diagnostic flowchart for solid breast masses: JABTS BC-01 study	5
Endoscopic ultrasound-guided tissue acquisition for the histopathological diagnosis of autoimmune pancreatitis	5
Discrimination of well-differentiated liposarcoma from benign lipoma on sonography: an uncontrolled retrospective study	5
Speed-of-sound estimation in ultrasound propagation medium by considering size of target scatterer	5
Development and future prospective of treatment for localized prostate cancer with high-intensity focused ultrasound	4
Self-learning followed by telepresence instruction of focused cardiac ultrasound with a handheld device for medical students: a preliminary study	4
The Japan Society of Ultrasonics in Medicine guidelines on non-mass abnormalities of the breast	4
Refraction artifact on abdominal sonogram	4
Current status and future perspective of sonodynamic therapy for cancer	4
Pathological findings of liver steatosis that is difficult to evaluate with ultrasound	4
Total atrial conduction time as a possible predictor of atrial fibrillation recurrence after catheter ablation for paroxysmal atrial fibrillation: relationship between electrical atrial remodeling and	4
Contrast analysis in ultrafast ultrasound blood flow imaging of jugular vein	4
Evaluating the usefulness of breast strain elastography for intraductal lesions	4
The most appropriate region-of-interest position for attenuation coefficient measurement in the evaluation of liver steatosis	4
Inhibitory effects of ultrasound irradiation on Staphylococcus epidermidis biofilm	4
Hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia: how to efficiently detect hepatic abnormalities using ultrasonography	4
Time-course changes in active stiffness of the supraspinatus muscle after arthroscopic rotator cuff repair	4
Efficacy of B-mode ultrasound-based attenuation for the diagnosis of hepatic steatosis: a systematic review/meta-analysis	4
Can measuring perilesional tissue stiffness and stiff rim sign improve the diagnostic performance between benign and malignant breast lesions?	4
Positive rate and prognostic significance of the superb microvascular imaging signal in joints of rheumatoid arthritis patients in remission with normal C-reactive protein levels and erythrocyte sedim	4
Role of liver stiffness measurements in patients who develop hepatocellular carcinoma after clearance of the hepatitis C virus	4
Ultrasound-guided internal jugular venipuncture using pocket-sized versus standard ultrasound devices: a prospective non-inferiority trial	3
Comparison of strain elastography and shear wave elastography in diagnosis of fibrosis in nonalcoholic fatty liver disease	3
Sonographic findings of cervical laceration caused by vaginal delivery in pregnancy after radical trachelectomy	3
Manual for abdominal ultrasound in cancer screening and health checkups, revised edition (2021)	3

Ultrasonography and fine needle aspiration cytology of thyroid Langerhans cell histiocytosis lesions	3
Effectiveness of pulsatility index of carotid Doppler ultrasonography to predict cardiovascular events	3
Optimal number of needle punctures in endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine-needle biopsy for gastric subepithelial lesions without rapid on-site evaluation	3
The differences between conventional lead, thin lead, and leadless pacemakers regarding effects on tricuspid regurgitation in the early phase	3
Quantitative assessment of liver steatosis using ultrasound: dual-energy CT	3
Noninvasive ultrasound technique for assessment of liver fibrosis and cardiac function in Fontan-associated liver disease: diagnosis based on elastography and hepatic vein waveform type	3
Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography and intraductal ultrasonography in the diagnosis of autoimmune pancreatitis and IgG4-related sclerosing cholangitis	3
Low-intensity ultrasound inhibits melanoma cell proliferation in vitro and tumor growth in vivo	3
Role of ultrasound in follow-up after choledochal cyst surgery	3
Relationship between shear elastic modulus and passive muscle force in human hamstring muscles using a Thiel soft-embalmed cadaver	3
Gastric bronchogenic cyst: a rare congenital cystic lesion of the stomach	3
Comments on “Effect of the size of benign thyroid degenerative nodules on ACR TI-RADS categories”	3
Ultrasound elastography in chronic kidney disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis	3
Standardization of normal values for cardiac chamber size in echocardiography	3
Ultrasound diagnosis of carotid artery stenosis and occlusion	3
Ultrasonographic evaluation of pelvic floor structure at antepartum and postpartum periods using three-dimensional transperineal ultrasound	3
Clinical utility of ultrasonography imaging in musculoskeletal conditions: A Systematic review and Meta-analysis	3
Reliability of an ultrasonographical scoring system for diagnosis of sinusoidal obstruction syndrome/veno-occlusive disease in patients with hematopoietic stem cell transplantation	3
Histopathology of non-mass-like breast lesions on ultrasound	3
Implementation and assessment of a pediatric point-of-care ultrasound training course in Japan: a pilot study	3
Basic practices for gastrointestinal ultrasound	2
Point-of-care ultrasound in musculoskeletal field	2
Deep attenuation transducer to measure liver stiffness in obese patients with liver disease	2
Optimizing irradiation conditions for low-intensity pulsed ultrasound to upregulate endothelial nitric oxide synthase	2
The diagnostic accuracy of ultrasound and upper gastrointestinal contrast studies for locating atresia/stenosis and intestinal malrotation and detecting annular pancreas in pediatric patients with duo	2
Sonographic evaluation of the abductor pollicis brevis muscle reflects muscle strength recovery after carpal tunnel release	2
Value of shear wave elastography during second-look breast ultrasonography for suspicious lesions on magnetic resonance imaging	2
Ultrasonographic grayscale findings related to fibrosis in patients with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease: comparison with transient elastography and Fib-4 index	2
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	2
Histological features of autoimmune pancreatitis and IgG4-related sclerosing cholangitis with a correlation with imaging findings	2
Factors associated with misdiagnosis of preoperative endoscopic ultrasound in patients with pancreatic cystic neoplasms undergoing surgical resection	2
Point-of-care ultrasound for stroke patients in the emergency room	2
Evaluation of atezolizumab plus bevacizumab combination therapy for hepatocellular carcinoma using contrast-enhanced ultrasonography	2
Role of transabdominal ultrasound in the diagnosis of autoimmune pancreatitis	2
Usefulness of ultrasound in diagnosing long head of the biceps tendon malposition in patients with rotator cuff tears	2
Impact of left ventricular hypertrophy on clinical outcomes in patients with dialysis: a single-center study in Japan	2
The influence of esophagogastroduodenoscopy using carbon dioxide insufflation on abdominal ultrasonographic imaging efficiency	2
A study on the optimal condition of ground truth area for liver tumor detection in ultrasound images using deep learning	2
Regional heterogeneity of afterload sensitivity in myocardial strain	2
Tongue model construction based on ultrasound images with image processing and deep learning method	2
The effect of the skin–liver capsule distance on the accuracy of ultrasound diagnosis for liver steatosis and fibrosis	2
Contrast-enhanced ultrasonography for blood flow detection in hepatocellular carcinoma during lenvatinib therapy	2
Ultrasonographic diagnosis of pancreatic diseases: this is all you need	2
The effect of attenuation inside the acoustic traps on the configuration of vertical artifacts in lung ultrasound: an experimental study with simple models	2
The tumor-infiltrating lymphocyte ultrasonography score can provide a diagnostic prediction of lymphocyte-predominant breast cancer preoperatively	2
Two-dimensional shear wave elastography of the pancreas: measurement success rate, repeatability, and factors affecting measurement values	2
Point-of-care ultrasound for acute abdomen: 5W1H (Translated version)	2
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 autograft	2
Magnetic resonance imaging diagnosis of non-mass enhancement of the breast	2
Ultrasonographic diagnosis of pancreatic diseases: this is all you need	2
Deep axillary lymphadenopathy after coronavirus disease 2019 vaccination: a case report	2
Assessment of the frequency dependence of acoustic properties on material, composition, and scatterer size of the medium	2
Low-complexity generalized coherence factor estimated from binarized signals in ultrasound beamforming	2
Use of aortic point-of-care ultrasound in conventional and emergent echocardiography	2
A case of umbilical cord angiomyxoma with massive arteriovenous shunts diagnosed with HDlive Flow	2
Ultrasound diagnosis of non-mass MRI-detected lesions	2
Shock wave lithotripsy and therapy	2