# OnCo record sulfur-hexafluoride-microspheres (drug). Data CC BY-NC 4.0, attribute "Data from OnCo (onco.cc)". Whole corpus: https://onco.cc/api/v1/onco.nt
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@prefix onco: <https://onco.cc/ns#> .
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<https://onco.cc/drugs/sulfur-hexafluoride-microspheres/>
  a schema:Drug ;
  onco:kind "drug" ;
  schema:identifier "sulfur-hexafluoride-microspheres" ;
  schema:name "Sulfur hexafluoride microbubbles (ultrasound contrast)"@en ;
  schema:alternateName "sulfur hexafluoride"@en, "sulphur hexafluoride"@en, "Lumason"@en, "SonoVue"@en, "Lumason" ;
  schema:description "Tiny gas bubbles injected into a vein during an ultrasound scan. In the liver they show how a lump fills with blood, which helps tell liver cancer and other lesions apart without radiation."@en ;
  schema:url <https://onco.cc/drugs/sulfur-hexafluoride-microspheres/> ;
  schema:dateModified "2026-11-04"^^xsd:date ;
  schema:citation <https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cder/daf/index.cfm?event=overview.process&ApplNo=203684>, <https://dailymed.nlm.nih.gov/dailymed/drugInfo.cfm?setid=7c679424-c3f7-ed02-892f-20ca0d775089>, <https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/medicines/human/EPAR/sonovue>, <https://atcddd.fhi.no/atc_ddd_index/?code=V08DA&showdescription=no> ;
  onco:status "approved" ;
  onco:tag "contrast-agents-gaps-2026-11", "diagnostic" ;
  onco:modality "Ultrasound contrast agent, gas microbubbles (intravenous)" ;
  onco:approval "US 2014: Echocardiography; characterisation of focal liver lesions on ultrasound; paediatric urinary tract ultrasound", "EU 2001: Ultrasound contrast, including characterisation of liver and breast lesions on Doppler sonography" ;
  onco:cancers <https://onco.cc/cancers/hcc/> ;
  onco:technologies <https://onco.cc/technologies/ultrasound-contrast-agents/>, <https://onco.cc/technologies/ultrasound/>, <https://onco.cc/technologies/ultrasound-elastography-ceus/> ;
  onco:companies <https://onco.cc/companies/bracco/> .