Ultrasound

Ultrasound relies on precision and teamwork. Every scan is a partnership between sonographer and clinician, where both skill and intuition contribute to image quality and diagnosis. During Medical Ultrasound Awareness Month, UCSF highlights Liina Põder, MD, Chelsy Coco, and the dedicated ultrasound team whose expertise turns sound waves into stories of care.

A 2022 update to the Ovarian-Adnexal Reporting and Data System for Ultrasound (O-RADS US) has made the system more accurate, reducing false positives and improving specificity.

Lori Strachowski, MD, and a committee of The Society of Radiologists in Ultrasound published a lexicon of terms for first trimester ultrasound that standardize the medical language, are mindful of patient emotions and expectations and address the current landscape of early pregnancy care in the USA.

This Medical Ultrasound Awareness Month, we proudly recognize the extraordinary skill and expertise of our sonographers. 

At UCSF Benioff Children's Hospitals in Mission Bay and Oakland, radiologists are now offering a new, more comfortable, and radiation-free imaging method called pediatric Contrast-enhanced voiding urosonography (ceVUS).

Kazim Narsinh, MD, and colleagues discuss the challenges of treating glioblastoma, with an emphasis on novel drugs and alternative methods of drug delivery, covering the ongoing challenges of drug design, positing combination therapy and novel trial designs.

An elective for fourth-year medical students at UCSF School of Medicine provides hands-on experience combined with narrative medicine principles in a structured setting, offering a holistic approach to scenarios that newly minted doctors might encounter before, during, and after a procedure.

UCSF Medical Center’s sonographers have been very hard at work. The department encourages staff to obtain additional certifications to enhance patient care and several have succeeded in becoming Registered Musculoskeletal Sonographers (RMSKS™).

The Peripheral Nerve Center at UCSF is comprised of a multidisciplinary team devoted to precisely assessing and addressing often painful and difficult-to-diagnose conditions of the peripheral nervous system. The Precision Spine Center run by the neuroradiology section of the Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging collaborates closely with the Peripheral Nerve Center and is one of the only centers in the world that routinely offers high-resolution imaging techniques including MR neurography as well as CT, MR and ultrasound image guided injections.

A UCSF team that includes members of the Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, is addressing new clinical and research neuro applications of High Intensity Focused Ultrasound (HIFU) and Low Intensity Focused Ultrasound (LIFU). A time will present their work on brain applications of HIFU and LIFU in an upcoming webinar on March 28 at noon PDT.