Echogenic Surface Enhancements for Improving Needle Visualization in Ultrasound: A PRISMA Systematic Review
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Optimal visualization of needles in clinical ultrasound imaging is important and challenging, especially at steep angles. Improvement of visualization has been attempted with various techniques, for example, coatings and dimples. This systematic review summarizes enhancement techniques and identifies superior echogenic surface enhancements. Twenty-four papers were identified providing visibility measures for 33 different echogenic needles. These were grouped according to surface characteristics and ranked. Echogenic needles ranked higher than standard needles especially at steeper angles. Among the echogenic needles, coated needles were seemingly better visualized “in vivo” than noncoated needles, despite heterogeneity in study conditions. No unambiguous comparison revealed which needle was best visualized.
Originalsprog | Engelsk |
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Tidsskrift | Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine |
Vol/bind | 41 |
Udgave nummer | 2 |
Sider (fra-til) | 311-325 |
Antal sider | 15 |
ISSN | 0278-4297 |
DOI | |
Status | Udgivet - 2022 |
Bibliografisk note
Funding Information:
William Cook Europe ApS and PAJUNK GmbH are greatly acknowledged for providing free samples of the needles presented in Figure?1A, B), respectively. The National Centre for Nano Fabrication and Characterization (DTU Nanolab) at the Technical University of Denmark is greatly acknowledged for providing the microscope used to capture the photos used in Figure?1. Appreciation also goes to Nikolaj Kragmose Jensen for assistance with proof reading and to S?ren Torp-Pedersen, MD, Department of Radiology, Rigshospitalet Glostrup, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, for constructive comments.
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© 2021 American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine.
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