About ICUS
- ICUS is the world’s only professional society exclusively devoted to contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) medical imaging technology.
- ICUS brings together CEUS professionals from the fields of cardiology, radiology, vascular medicine, gastro-intestinal medicine, oncology, and other medical specialties from 22 countries in North, Central and South America; Europe; Asia; Africa; and the Middle East.
WHAT IS CEUS?
- CEUS uses “contrast agents” to enhance ultrasound images and help physicians provide a more accurate non-invasive diagnosis of a variety of medical abnormalities.
WHAT ARE THE ADVANTAGES OF CEUS?
- CEUS is significantly safer than many alternative diagnostic imaging procedures.
- CEUS improves the accuracy and reliability of ultrasound diagnoses of various organ systems in the body.
- CEUS helps lower health care costs, in part by reducing the need for more expensive downstream tests.
WHY ICUS?
- With an unparalleled professional depth, ICUS will provide the field of Contrast Ultrasound with its own platform for promoting education, research and development.
- ICUS provides the CEUS field with its own voice for expressing principled, scientifically-based perspectives on the appropriate use and regulation of ultrasound contrast agents.
