Figure 8.

Color Doppler ultrasound imaging pre, peri, and postthermal HIFU ablation. b-mode ultrasound (US) images with color Doppler flow imaging (CDFI) from a 44-y-old patient before and after treatment with thermal HIFU. (a) Pretreatment image shows the vascularity of the fibroid for treatment. (b) Intraoperative assessment result shows that the targeted vessel in the treatment cell was not detected by CDFI and Power Doppler Imaging (PDI). (c) Posttreatment image shows the whole vascularity was not detected by CDFI and PDI. (d) US image with CDFI acquired 3 months after treatment shows fibroid shrinkage. The yellow ring indicates fibroid. B = bladder; CX = cervix; EN = endometrium; UT = uterine. Figure adapted from [18].