Vassallo Reid, Mannas Miles P, Salcudean Septimiu E, Black Peter C
School of Biomedical Engineering, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
Department of Urologic Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
Prostate. 2025 Jun;85(9):823-832. doi: 10.1002/pros.24893. Epub 2025 Mar 28.
Prostate cancer is a significant health issue worldwide, but methods to screen for and diagnose this disease have significant inherent limitations. Some efforts to address these limitations have involved the use of ultrasound-based imaging methods.
This narrative review paper focuses on recent developments in the use of medical imaging, with a focus on ultrasound and related methods, to improve the diagnosis of prostate cancer. These methods include: elastography, contrast-enhanced ultrasound, targeted contrast agents, quantitative ultrasound, multiparametric ultrasound, micro-ultrasound, and photoacoustic imaging.
This paper provides an update on clinically relevant imaging technologies which are in the technical and preclinical literature.
Novel methods and their performance are highlighted, including how they address limitations in current clinical care.
前列腺癌是全球一个重大的健康问题,但筛查和诊断该疾病的方法存在显著的固有局限性。为解决这些局限性所做的一些努力涉及使用基于超声的成像方法。
这篇叙述性综述论文聚焦于医学成像应用的最新进展,重点是超声及相关方法,以改善前列腺癌的诊断。这些方法包括:弹性成像、超声造影、靶向造影剂、定量超声、多参数超声、微超声和光声成像。
本文提供了有关技术和临床前文献中临床相关成像技术的最新信息。
突出了新方法及其性能,包括它们如何解决当前临床护理中的局限性。