# OnCo record ultrasound-contrast-agents (technology). Data CC BY-NC 4.0, attribute "Data from OnCo (onco.cc)". Whole corpus: https://onco.cc/api/v1/onco.nt
@prefix schema: <https://schema.org/> .
@prefix onco: <https://onco.cc/ns#> .
@prefix xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .

<https://onco.cc/technologies/ultrasound-contrast-agents/>
  a schema:MedicalTherapy ;
  onco:kind "technology" ;
  schema:identifier "ultrasound-contrast-agents" ;
  schema:name "Ultrasound contrast agents (microbubbles)"@en ;
  schema:alternateName "Microbubble contrast"@en, "Ultrasound contrast"@en, "CEUS agent"@en, "Microbubbles"@en ;
  schema:description "Tiny gas bubbles injected into a vein during an ultrasound scan, used to show blood flow in the heart and, in the liver, to tell different kinds of lump apart without radiation."@en ;
  schema:url <https://onco.cc/technologies/ultrasound-contrast-agents/> ;
  schema:dateModified "2026-11-04"^^xsd:date ;
  schema:citation <https://atcddd.fhi.no/atc_ddd_index/?code=V08DA&showdescription=no> ;
  onco:status "standard-of-care" ;
  onco:tag "contrast-agents-gaps-2026-11" ;
  onco:cancers <https://onco.cc/cancers/hcc/> ;
  onco:sections <https://onco.cc/fronts/imaging/> ;
  onco:technologies <https://onco.cc/technologies/ultrasound/>, <https://onco.cc/technologies/ultrasound-elastography-ceus/>, <https://onco.cc/technologies/gadolinium-based-contrast-agents/> ;
  onco:drugs <https://onco.cc/drugs/sulfur-hexafluoride-microspheres/>, <https://onco.cc/drugs/perflutren-lipid-microspheres/>, <https://onco.cc/drugs/optison/> ;
  onco:companies <https://onco.cc/companies/bracco/>, <https://onco.cc/companies/lantheus/>, <https://onco.cc/companies/ge-healthcare/> .