Ultrasound in Med. & Biol., Vol. 3, pp. 419-428. Pergamon Press, 1978. Printed in Great Britain

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The 31st meeting of the Japan Society of Ultrasonics in Medicine was held in Tokyo, Japan from 18-20 May 1977. The following papers were presented.

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UROLOGY

Echographic Diagnosis of the Adrenals ( ls t report). Y. TANAHASHI, D. IGARI and K. HARADA,

Tohoku University School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan.

2. A Needle Biopsy Method Guided by Elec- tronic High Speed Scan Ultrasonoto- mography. T. HIRATA and K. MATSUURA,

Kyushyu University Hospital, Fukuoka, Japan.

3. Evaluation of Renal Blood Flow with Ultrasonic Doppler Technique--Changes in pre and postoperative renal blood flow in cases with renovascular lesions. M. ARIM, S. SAGAWA, T. SONODA, T. KADOWSKI, T. KURITA, H. MATSUO, T. HAYASHI, M. ASAO, Y. TERAO and Y. N I M U R A ,

Osaka University Medical School, Osaka, Japan.

4. Ultrasonic Diagnosis of Scrotai Tumorsmthe 1st report: adult cases. Y. SAWAMURA, M. TAZIMA and K. ANDO,

Toho University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.

5. Ultrasonic Diagnosis of Scrotal Tumorsmthe 2nd report: the application of a radial scan- ner to small tumors. Y. SAWAMURA, M. TAZIMA and K. ANDO,

Toho University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.

6. Grey Scale Transrectal Uitrasonography of the Prostate. K. HARADA, D. IGARI and Y. TANAHASHI,

Tohoku University School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan.

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Diagnosis of Cholelithiasis by the Ultrasonic Digital Simultaneous Tomogram Method (Study on the detection rate of gall stones).

T. TATSUMI, H. YOKO1, M. NAKAHARA, K. ITO and K. MIZUKAWA,

Nissei Hospital, Osaka, Japan.

Ultrasonic Diagnosis of the Cholelithiasis Associated with Portal Hypertension by the Intercostal Scanning Method. T. ITO, M. MAKUUCHI, K. KAMIYA, T. BEPPU, S. FUTAGAWA, H. SHIMA, M. SUGIURA, T. WADA and T. MUROI,

University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.

Studies on Grey Scale Echography of Upper Abdominal Organs (II) Grey Scale Echograms of Cholelithiasis. M. INABA, M. FUKUDA, Y. MARUYAMA and I. URUSHIZAKI,

Sapporo Medical College, Sapporo, Japan.

Ultrasonic Diagnosis of the Dilatation of the Biliary Tract. N. UMEKITA, K. KAMIYA, M. MAKUUCH1, T. BEPPU, M. SUGIURA, T. WADA and T. MUROI,

University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.

Study on Visualization of the Malignant Tumor of the Biliary Tract Using Ultrasound as Screening Examination. N . Y A M A M O T O , Y . N A K A M U R A , T . K U B O , R .

OMOTO, Y. IDA, E. TODA and G. OYA,

Mitsui Memorial Hospital, Tokyo, Japan.

Echo Guided Percutaneous Transhepatic Cholangiography by the Puncture Trans- ducer. M. MAKUUCHI, K. KAMIYA, T. BEPPU, S.

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FUTAGAWA, M. SUGIURA, T. WADA, H. ABE, T. NISHINA and T. MUROI,

University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.

21. Delineation of the Normal Pancreas with Grey-Scale Echotomography. S. AKIMOTO, Y. OSAKA, T. YURI, K. TAK- ASAKI, K. HAMANO and H. OBATA,

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Ultrasonotomography of the Portal Vein. K. OHASHI, S. YAMAMOTO and Y. HIRANO,

Kawasaki Medical School, Kurashiki, Japan.

Uitrasonography of the Abdominal Region by the Ultrasonic Diagnostic System Using Elec- tronically Scanned Transducer Arrays. K. KAMIYA, M. MAKUUCHI, F. SHIMA, M. SUGIURA, T. WADA and T. MUROI,

University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.

Electronic Linear Scanning in the Cases of Hepato-bffiary Disease. S. SAKAGUCHI,

Kokura National Hospital, Kokura, Japan.

Diagnosis of Diffuse Liver Disease Using UST. S. SAKAGUCHI, K. HIDA and M, OKUMURA,

Kokura National Hospital, Kokura, Japan.

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Tokyo Women's Medical College, Tokyo, Japan.

Ultrasonotomographic Findings of Pancreatic Cancer.

E. WATANABE, K. UEMURA, T. HIRAOKA and I. YOKOYAMA,

Kumamoto University Medical School, Kumamoto, Japan.

An Attempt of Improvement on the Ultrasonography of the Pancreas. T. KITAMURA, F. NAKAGAWA, Y. NAKASE, S. KAWAI, H. ASAI and H. OOMI,

The Center for Adult Diseases, Osaka, Japan.

Ultrasonically Guided Percutaneous Aspira- tion Needle Biopsy of the Pancreas. K. ITOH, T. DAIMON, A. HAYASHI and T. KAWAI,

Jichi Medical School, Tochigi, Japan.

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Studies on Grey Scale Echography of Upper Abdominal Organs (I) Amplifier Charac- teristics and Grey Scaling of Echograms. M. FUKUDA, M. INABA, O. NAKAZAWA, Y. MURUYAMA, R. UCHIOA and T. IRIE,

Sapporo Medical College, Sapporo, Japan.

Ultrasonic Examination of Malignant Gastric Neoplasms. T. NISHINA, T. KOHZUMA, H. HORI, M. NAKANO, H. ABE, M. MAKUCCHI, K. KAMIYA, H. MATSUNAGA and T. MUROI,

Tokyo University, Tokyo, Japan.

Diagnosis of the Upper Abdomen by a New Electroscanning Ultrasonic Diagnostic Equipment. H. YOKOI, M. NAKAHARA, T. TATSUMI, K. ITO, M. ITO, S. YUDA, K. TANAKA, Y. YOSHIKAWA and K. KURIHARA,

Nissei Hospital, Osaka, Japan.

Ultrasonotomography of the Spleen (10th report). The Ultrasonic Tomogram of the Spleen in Leukemia. H. ASAI, T. MONNA, T. KITAMURA, F. NAKAGAWA and S. KAWAI,

Osaka City University Medical School, Osaka, Japan.

25. Endoscopic Ultrasonic Scanning of the Pan- creasm2nd report. T. INOUE, K. TAKAO, M. NAGATSU, H. HIROMOTO, T. IWAMOTO, Y. SATO, J. SUGI- HARA and T.'MITSUNO,

Kobe University School of Medicine, Kobe, Japan.

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NEUROLOGY, OPHTHALMOLOGY, BREAST, THYROID, ETC.

Ultrasonic Diagnosis of Skeletal and Soft Tis- sue TumOrs for Orthopedic Surgery. S. YOH, S. MASUDA, H. FUKUMA, T. KOBAYASHI, S. MAKAMURA, S. TANABE and O. TAKATANI,

National Cancer Center Hospital, Tokyo, Japan.

27. On the Correlation with Puisatile Echo Encephalogram to Carotid Arteriogram (8th report). H. NARIKAWA, I. TAKAHASHI, S. TAKASE, G. SATO and K. ITAHARA,

Tohoku University School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan.

28. Ultrasonic Diagnosis of Respiratory Dis- eases I. Application of Ulttrsonotomography for Bedside Study. H. NATORI, S. TAMAKI, K. ITO and S. KIRA,

Jichi Medical School, Tochigi, Japan.

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Ultrasonic Diagnosis of Retinoblastoma. A. KANEKO,

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S. YUTA, K. SUZUKI, M. ITOH, K. ITO and H. YOKOI,

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National Cancer Center Hospital, Tokyo, Japan.

Studies on the Measurement of Axial Length of Sucking Infant's Eye by a New Digital Display in Ultrasound. Y. YAMAMOTO, S. HIRANO, Y. KIMURA, H. IKEDA and S. NAKAGAWA,

Komagome Hospital, Japan

Ultrasonic Diagnosis of Ocular Injuries. S. TANE, S. ITO, M. NAGAE and Y. KIMURA,

St. Marianna University School of Medicine, Kawasaki-shi, Japan.

Clinical Application of Electro-scanning Ultrasonic Equipment on Thyroid, Breast, Spleen and Gall Bladder. E. TAKADA, S. IKEGUCHI, M. ARAKAWA, M. TSUCHIDATE, K. NAGASHIMA and S. SHIDA,

Dokkyo University School of Medicine, Japan.

Gray-Scale Echographic Diagnosis of Breast Cancer--The Role of Connective Tissue to Cause Diagnostic Information and Echo-Sign in Certain Breast Cancer. T. KOBAYASHI, A. SHINODA, S. NAKAMURA, S. TANABE and O. TAKATANI,

National Cancer Center Hospital, Tokyo, Japan.

Study on Internal Echoes of the Tumor by Digital Ultrasonotomography. H. YOKOI, T. TATSUMI, M. NAKAHARA, K. ITO, M. ITO, S. YUDA and K. MIZUKAWA,

Nissei Hospital, Osaka, Japan.

Ultrasonic DiagnosisofThyroid Cancer. K. UEMURA, E. WATANABE, M. TANAKA, S. FUKAMATSU,-K. IwAI, K. YAMAMOTO and I. YOKOYAMA,

Kumamoto University Medical School, Kumamoto, Japan.

Ultrasonotomographic Pattern of Tumor. T. NAKAGAWA, S. FUKUNISHI, K. IRIYAMA, T. MIZUTANI and T. FUJINO,

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Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Koganei, Tokyo, Japan.

Image Processing System for Ultrasono- graphy Using Mini-computer--Area appoint- ment and echo-level histogram routine. S. YUTA, K. SUZUKI, M. ITOH, K. ITO and H. YOKOI,

Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Koganei, Tokyo, Japan.

Data Compression of Digitized Ultrasono- grams. M. KOREHISA, S. YUTA, K. SUZUKI, M. ITOH, K. ITOH and H. YOKOl,

Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Koganei, Tokyo, Japan.

Noise Elimination of Ultrasonic Tomography by Wiener Filtering. M. ITOH, K. SUZUKI, K. ITO, S. YUTA and H. YOKOI,

Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Koganei, Tokyo, Japan.

DOPPLER SYSTEMS Role of Doppler Flowmetry as Screening Test for the Peripheral Arterial Diseases. T. KANO, N. ONO, K. KENMOKU, Y. YOK- OTE, Y. WANIBUCHI, R. OMOTO, S. FURUTA and G. OYA,

Mitsui Memorial Hospital, Tokyo, Japan.

Quantitization of Pulsed Doppler Ultrasound Flow Measurement. W. E. MORITZ and S. OHMORI.

University of Washington, Seattle, Washington.

A Fundamental Study on Modulating Signals Applicable to Ultrasonic Doppler Flowmeter. A. SHIOZAKI, S. SENDA, Y. TERAO, M. ASAO, T. HAYASHI, A. KITABATAKE and H. MATSUO,

Osada Electro-Communication University, Ney- agawa, Japan.

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Mie University School of Medicine, Japan.

Quantitative Analysis of Characteristics in Ultrasonotomograms of Tumors--to differ- entiate between benign and malignant.

44. Electronic Sector Scanning System (5) B scan/Doppler Duplex Scanner. T. OGAWA, K. KATAKURA and T. KONDO,

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CARDIOLOGY The Echocardiographic Evaluation of the Left Veutricnlar Hypertrophy (LVH) Diagnosed by the Electrocardiogram. M. OHNO, K. KAMEI, Y. YAZAWA, T. KAS- AHARA, M. KABASAWA, H. SATO, T. SHU, Z. OZAWA, N. HIGUMA, K. TAMURA and M. MATSUOKA,

Niigata University School of Medicine, Niigata, Japan.

Differences and Characteristics of Diagnostic Ability Between Echocardiography and 2°~Thallium Myocardial Scintigraphy-- lschaemic heart disease and cardiomyopathy. H. KOTOURA, H. KAMBARA, T. NISHIMURA, K. KADOTA, G. OSAKADA, M. TAKAHASHI and C. KAWAI,

Kyoto University Hospital, Kyoto, Japan.

Single Beam and Cross-Sectional Echocar- diogram of the Mitrai Valve Ring. K. KUWAKO, T. NATSUME, T. TAMURA, H. NODA, R. OMOTO, S. FURUTA and K. MACHII,

Mitsui Memorial Hospital, Tokyo, Japan.

48. Cross-Sectional Echocardiography of Entire Left Ventricle, Endocardium, Papillary Mus- cl¢¢-Trabeculae Carneae, and Apex by High Speed Ultra-wide Angle Sector Scanning Sys- tem. K. HISANAGA, A. H1SANAGA, K. SUMIYAMA, K. NAGATA and S. YOSHIDA,

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Mitsubishi Nagoya Hospital, Nagoya, Japan.

A New Real-time Sector Scanning System of High Azimuthal Resolution Using a Virtual Ring Transducer and Its Clinical Applica- tions. K. HISANAGA, A. HISANAGA, K. NAGATA, S. YOSHIDA, H. KANDA, K. KATAKURA, Y. SATO, Y. ISHIKAWA, N. HIBI, Y. FUKUI, K. NISHIMURA, H. TADA and T. KAMBE,

Mitsubishi Nagoya Hospital, Nagoya, Japan.

The Diagnostic Value of the Echocardio. graphy for Mitral Stenosis in Comparison with Phonocardiography. T. SHU, M. OHNO, K. KAMEI, Y. YAZAWA, T. KASAHARA, M. KABASAWA, H. SATOH, N. HIGUMA, H. MUROOKA, K. TAMURA, M. MATSUOKA, Y. SATOH, Y. YAMAZAKI and S. EGUCHI,

51. Quantitive Evaluation of Mitrai Orifice Area in Patients with Mitral Valve Disease by Noninvasive Technique--Electronic Sector Scanning Two-dimensional Echocardiography (Sth Report). H. MATSUO, M. MATSUMOTO, K. KITABA- TAKE, Y. HAMANAKA, T. OHARA, M. DOI, S. SENDA, Y. NIMURA, Y. YAMADA, K. KOBAYASH1, A. TERASOMA, H. TANAHASHI, H. KIMURA, F. OKADA, J. CHIKAMORI, S. IOKA, S. NANJO and K. NAKAMURA,

Osaka University Medical School, Osaka, Japan.

52. Echocardiographic Findings of Mitral Valve Disease Based on Dissected Mitral Valves. K. NAKAMURA, S. FURUKAWA, Y. FUKUDA, K. MIYAHARA, K. MISAKA, S. HASHIMOTO, A. TAIRA and H. AMAKO,

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Kagoshima University School of Medicine, Kagoshima, Japan.

Study with Echocardiography of Three Patients with Mitral Annuloplasty. M. TANIMOTO, T. YAMAMOTO, S. TANIGUCHI, T. OOGAMI, N. YASUTOMI, A. KIBI, M. OOYANAGI, S. MAKIHATA, T. IWASAKI and S. YORIFUJI,

Hyogo College of Medicine, Nishinomiya, Japan.

54. Esophageal Echocardiography--An applica- tion to the diagnosis of mitrai valve prolapsus. M. MATSUZAKI, Y. IKEE, T. YOROZU, K. FUKAGAWA, S. MAEDA, T. SASADA, K. NOMOTO, M. KOMODA, H. FUJI1 and K. MORIYAMA,

Yamaguchi University School of Medicine, Ube, Japan.

55. Echocardiographic Detection of Mitral Valve Prolapse Syndrome (MVPS)--Angiographic- echocardiographic correlation. S. MATSUI, M. NOMURA, T. SAGA, K. MASUYA, E. KITANO, H. MURAKAMI, S. HARA, N. MAEDA, T. KIN, Y. HIRAMARU, N. TAKEKOSHI and E. MURAKAMI,

Kanazawa Medical University, Ishikawa, Uchinada, Japan.

56. Echocardiographic Diagnosis of Ruptured Chordae Tendineae from the Posterior Mitral Valve Leaflet. K. YANAGIHARA, H, KATO, T. OWAKI, Y. TAKAGI, F. OKUMACHI, T. SUZUKI, K. YOSHIDA, J. YOSHIKAWA, T. SYOMURA and M. YOSHIZUMI,

Niigata University School of Medicine, Niigata, Japan. Kobe Municipal Central Hospital, Kobe, Japan.

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Conimrning the Mechanism Responsible for 63. the Production of Mid-Diastolic Anterior Movement of the Mitrai Leaflet. K. INOUE, T. UTSUNOMIYA, K. UEDA, K. KUWAKI, H. KYONO, T. SHIRAI, S. HOMMA and H. OHSUZU,

Tokyo Metropolitan Police Hospital, Tokyo, Japan.

Echocardiographic Observations on the Mid- Diastolic Bulge of Mitral Valve. T. OKI, M. MATSUHISA, S. SAWADA, K. KAWAHARA, C. KONDO, T. NIKI and H. MORI,

Tokushima University School of Medicine, Tokushima, Japan.

Mitral Valve Echogram of a Case with Early Cardiac Tamponade after Mitrai Valve Replacement with Bjork-Shiley Valve Pros- thesis. Y. LOIDE, Y. KATAOKA, Y. FUKATA, I. KATO, N. KAIHOTSUM, T. SUGIMOTO and K. KUROKAMI,

Tokushima University School of Medicine, Tokushima, Japan.

A Dual-Beam Echocardiograph Simul- taneously Displayed with a Two-Dimensional Echocardiograph for Studying the Cardiac Motion. Electronic Sector Two-Dimensional Echocardiography (7th Report). H. MATSUO, A. KITABATAKE, M. MAT- SUMOTO, Y. HAMANAKA, T. OHARA, M. DOI, S. SENNA, Y. NIMURA, Y. YAMADA, A. SASAKI, Y. SATO and T. KONDO,

Osaka University Medical School, Osaka, Japan.

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Echocardiographic Findings in the In- fundibular Stenosis (Semiclosed position in midsystole and gross flutterings of pul- monary valve). M. MATSUI, S. SUZUKI and T. ARAI,

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Jikei Ulfiversity School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.

Correlations between Pulmonary Valve Echograms and Indirect Pulmonary Artery Pulse Tracings. Y. HADA, T. SAKAMOTO, T. HAYASHI, K. AMANO, H. ICHIYASU, K. KATO, C. TEI and T. YAMAGUCHI,

University of Tokyo School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.

65. Echocardiographic Findings of Pulmonary Valves and their Histologic Findings. T. SASAKI,

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Tohoku University School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan.

Tricuspid Valve Prolapse. Echocardiographic Study of 10 Cases. T. OOGAMI, M. TANIMOTO, T. YAMAMOTO, S. TAN1GUCHI, Y. SAITO, T. KOlOE, Y. MITANI, H. ANDO, T. IWASAKI and S. YORI- FUJI,

Hyogo College of Medicine, Nishinomiya, Japan.

67a. ContrastmUCG (peripheral vein injection and intra catheterization study): A case of Congenital Tricuspid Atresia. S. SUZUKI, M. MATUI and T. ARAI,

Jikei University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.

High-Speed Ultrasono-Cardiotomography-- An Experimental Study on Identification of Papillary Muscles of Extracted Canine Hearts. K. NISHIMURA, S. SUZUKI, N. HIBI, T. KATO, N. SAKAKIBARA, Y. FUKUI, T. ARAKAWA, A. MIWA, H. TADA, T. KAMBE, N. SAKAMOTO and M. HISANAGA,

Nagoya University School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan.

Pulmonary Valve Echo of Primary Pul- monary Hypertension. T. HANEDA, T. MIURA, N. ISHIDE, M. OHE, K. MIYAZAWA and T. TAKISHIMA,

Tohoku University School of Medicine, Sendal, Japan.

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Echocardiographic Evaluation of Tricuspid Incompetence after Tricuspid Annuloplasty. K. MINAMI, H. KOIE, S. MIKI, R. YASUDA, K. KUSUHARA, H. ISHIHARA, Y. MASUDA, M. TAKAMARU, T. NISHI, T. TAMURA, R. KUSUKAWA and K. KAJIMA,

Shiga University of Medical Science, Shiga, Japan.

Comparison between Echocardiography and Myocardial Imaging with Thallium 201 in the Location of the Myocardial Infarction. T. YAMAMOTO, M. TANIMOTO, T. OOGAMI, K. SAKUYAMA, Y. NOMURA, Y. TAKAOKA, Y. KAWAI, K. YAMANE, T. IWASAKI and S. YORIFUJI,

Hyogo Medical College, Nishinomiya, Japan.

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Comparative Study on the Left Ventricular Asynergy by the RI Angiography and Echo- cardiography. H. KAWARATANI, M. NARITA, T. KURIHARA and Y. USAMI,

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Sumitoma Hospital, Sumitomo, Japan.

Ultrasonic Diagnosis of Right Ventricular In- farction. T. OWAKI, H. KATO, K. YANAGIHARA, T. SUZUKI, F. OKUMACHI, Y. TAKAGI, K. YOSHIDA and J. YOSHIKAWA,

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Kobe Municipal Central Hospital, Kobe, Japan.

Echocardiographic Analysis of Essential Hypertension (lst report). K. KAWAHARA, T. OKI, S. SAWADA, C. KONDO, M. MATSUHISA, T. NIKI and H. MORI,

Tokushima University School of Medicine, Tokushima, Japan.

Echocardiographic and Vectorcardiographic Studies of Left Ventricular Hypertrophy on the Essential Hypertension. S. KITAZAWA, T. YAMAMOTO, K. MAT- SUKAWA, K. ATSUMI, S. ABE, M. IMAIZUMI, K. TAKAHASHI, K. SHIMIZU and Y. NOHARA,

Tokyo Medical College, Tokyo, Japan.

Echocardiographic Diagnosis of the Left Ventricular Hypertrophy--Re-evaluation of the method. K. INOUE, K. UEDA, K. KUWAKI, S. HOMMA, H. KYONO, T. SHIRAI, T. UTSUNOMIYA and H. OBsuzu,

Tokyo Metropolitan Police Hospital, Tokyo, Japan.

Echocardiographic Diagnosis in Bacterial Endocarditis. K. NAKAMURA, Y. KOMATSU, Y. NAGAI, K. SHIMIZU, Y. SATO, F. ADACHI, N. KIKUCHI, M. KONDO and K. HIROSAWA,

Tokyo Women's Medical College, Tokyo, Japan

Echocardiographic Findings of the Anomal- ous Fold or Cord in the Left Atrium. K. MIYAHARA, S. FURUKAWA, Y. FUKUDA, K. NAKAMURA, K. MISAKA, S. HASHIMOTO, M. NISHIMURA, A. TAIRA, Y. KODAMA, Y. KOJIMA and MAKUTA TAKAOKA,

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Echocardiograph.ic Demonstration of an Abnormally Enlarged Right Coronary Artery. K. NAGATA, K. MOCHIZUKI, T. TACHIBANA, Y. ICHIE, Y. FUTAMURA, Y. WATANABE, S. YASUI, K. HISANAGA and S. YOSHIDA,

Nagoya University School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan.

Direct Visualization of Coronary Artery Aneurysm in Acute (infantile) Febrile Muco- Cutaneous Lymph Node Syndrome (MCLS)EElectronic Sector two-dimensional echocardiograph (9th Report). H. MATSUO, M. MATSUMOTO, Y. HAMANAKA, S. NAGATA, S. BEPPU, T. OHARA, M. DO1, S. SENDA, Y. NIMURA, Y. YAMADA, Y. KAWASHIMA, T. MORI, K. KAWACHI, Y. HARIMA, H. OHKUNI, T. KOZUKA, M. FUZINO and M. OHTA,

Osaka University Medical School, Osaka, Japan.

78. Ultrasonic Diagnosis of Bland-White-Gar- land Syndrome. J. YOSHIKAWA, Y. TAKAGI, T. OWAKI, H. KATO, K. YANAGIHARA, T. SUZUKI, F. OKUMACHI, K. YOSHIDA, M. YOSHIZUMI and T. SYOMURA,

Kobe Municipal Central Hospital, Kobe, Japan.

79. An Application of Echocardiography to the Diagnosis of Single Ventricle. K. FUKAGAWA, M. MATSUZAKI, Y. IKEE, S. MAEDA, T. YOROZU, T. SASADA, K. EHARA, K. ISHIDA, T. TSUJII, M. KOMODA, K. MORIYAMA and R. KAKU,

Yamaguchi University School of Medicine, Ube, Japan.

80. Three Cases with Systolic Anterior Movement of the Mitral Valve (SAM) after Heart Sur- gery. H. YOSHIOKA, J. JINNOUCHI, K. ITAYA, Y. KOGA, H. TOSHIMA and N. KUMURA,

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Kurume University School of Medicine, Kurume, Japan.

The Observation of Baffle Movements at the Patients of Mustard Operation by Ultrasound Cardiotomography of Electric Linear Scan- ning System. N. FURUTA, M. NAGANUMA, K. Suoo, M. TSUNEMOTO, K. OTA, S. MATSUO, M. SHI- MADA, K. YOSHITAKE, A. MIZUNO, M. SAI- GUSA and Y. HARADA,

Kagoshima University School of Medicine, University of Tokyo Medical School, Tokyo, Kagoshima, Japan. Japan.

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Echocardiographic Evaluation of Left Ven- tricular Function Before and After Cardiac Surgery. Y. SATO, Y. YAMAZAKI, H. MATSUZAWA, M. TERASHIMA, Y. YOSHINO, M. IIZUKA and S.

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University of Niigata School of Medicine, Nii- gata, Japan.

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K. NAKAGAWA, K. OKUDA and K. ITO,

National Osaka Hospital, Osaka, Japan.

Ultrasonic Study of Cardiac Function. Influences of respiratory function and pul- monary circulation (Part VH: U.C.G. criteria of cor pulmonale). K. KITAZATO and M. KIMURA, 90.

Fukuoka Higashi National Hospital, Fukuoka, Japan.

Measurement of Cardiac Output by the Mitral and Aortic Root Echo. T. IWAMOTO, F. IWAMOTO, Y. ISHI, T. IN- OMATA, K. KIMURA, A. MIYOSHI, S. SAK- AGUCHI and K. MOTONAGA,

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Movement of the Left Ventricular Wall in Cases with Electrical Left Axis Deviation. K. AMANO, H. ICHIYASU, T. SAKAMOTO, T. HAYASHI, Y. HADA, C. TEI, K. KATO and T. YAMAGUCHI,

University of Tokyo School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.

Comparison of High Speed Ultrasono-cardio- tomography with intracardiac phonocardio- graphy. T. KAMBE, N. HIBI, K. NISHIMURA, Y. FUKUI, S. SUZUKI, T. SAKAKIBARA, T. KATO, T. ARAKAWA, A. MIWA, H. TADA, N. SAKAMOTO and K. HISANAGA,

Nagoya University School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan.

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University of Hiroshoma Medical School, Hiroshima, Japan.

Two Dimensional Echocardiographic Study on the Technical Problems in Measuring the Thickness of the Interventricular Septum Using Conventional Echocardiography. J. JINNOUCHI, H. YOSHIOKA, K. ADACHI, Y. KOGA, H. TOSHIMA and N. KIMURA,

Kurume University School of Medicine, Kurume, Japan.

Studies on Left Ventricular Wall with UCG M-mode Scanning. N. MURAKI, S. YAMAZAKI, K. FUKUSHIMA, S. OZAWA, M. SHUKUYA, A. HIRAI, Y. MASUDA and Y. INAGAKI,

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Left Ventricular Dimension by UCG in Patients with CmMiac Diseases. S. KAWADA, M. CHINO, H. YOSHIZU, Y. SOMA and K. ONO,

Ashikaga Red Cross Hospital, Ashikaga, Tochigi, Japan.

A Comparative Study of Echocardiography and Mechano:cardiography on the Assess- ment of Cardiac Function Especially in Atrial Fibrillation. M. YAMAMOTO, T. KOBAYASHI, K. MIZU- TANI and T. WATANABE,

Aichi Medical University, Nagakute, Aichi-ken, Japan.

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University of China School of Medicine, Chiba, Japan.

Application of Ultrasound to Measurement of Left Ventricular Wall-tension. M. KIDO, K. UNNO, K. YOSHIE, Y. KIKUCHI, Y. USUI, Y. KOMUKAI, T. HAND, A. MOTOYAMA, T. KOEDA, A. KOJIMA, S. SAIKI, M. KATO and T. KIMURA,

93. The Mechanism of Production of Pulsus Paradoxus by Echocardiography. C. TEl, T. SAKAMOTO, T. HAYASHI, H. ICHIYASU, K. AMANO, Y. HADA, T. SERIZAWA, K. KATO and T. YAMAGUCHI,

University of Tokyo Medical School, Tokyo, Japan.

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Iwate Medical University School of Medicine, Morioka, Japan.

Studies on Mechanism of Cardiac Contrac- tility by Application of Successive Ultrasonic Cardio-tomography. Report 26: Movement of mitral valve and left atrium in normal human young adults by use of superimposed method.

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BIOENGINEERING/BIOEFFECTS

Acoustic Impedance of Skin (I) (Determ- ination of acoustic impedance by reflection method). I. OGURA, K. IINUMA, Y. TAKEHARA and A. MATSUDA,

Kawasaki Kanto Chuo Hospital, Tokyo, Japan.

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Basic Analysis of Acoustical Holography for Medical Application (II). H. OHMICHI, M. NAGURA, K. NOGAMI, K. ATSUMI, S. MINOURA, S. SAKAMOTO, M. MARUYAMA and R. OMOTO,

University of Tokyo Medical School, Tokyo, Japan.

A New Solid State Scan Converter for Use in Grey Scale Ultrasound. A. WAXMAN,

Searle Ultrasound, Santa Clara, California.

Improvement of Ultrasonic Equipment with Scan Converter. T. OKAZAKI and T. ITO,

Diagnostic

Toshiba Tamagawa Works, Japan.

Improvement of Uitrasono-Cardiogram of High Speed Mechanical Scanner. M. URANISHI, S. SATO and Y. TAKEMURA,

Toshiba Tamagawa Works, Japan.

Ultrasonic Diagnostic System Using Elec- tronically Scanned Transducer Array. M. KAWABUCHI and A. FUKUMOTO,

Matsushita Research Inst. Tokyo, Inc., Kawasaki, Japan.

Uitrasonotomograph by Electronic Scanning (6) High density scanning method for elec- tronic linear scanning. M. KURODA, S. ONO, H. KANDA and T. KONDO,

Hitachi Ltd., Tokyo, Japan.

Some Factors Disturbing Echographic Diag- nosis (1)---Side Lobe. T. KIDOKORO, K. IINUMA, Y. TAKEHARA, K. MORITA and AT. MATSUDA,

Kawasaki Kanto Chuo Hospital, Tokyo, Japan.

Piezoelectric Elements in Electronically Scanned Arrayed Transducers (I) Analysis by using equivalent circuit method. J. SATO, M. KAWABUCHI and A. FUKUMOTO,

Matsushita Research Inst., Kawasaki, Japan.

Piezoelectric Elements in Electronically Scanned Arrayed Transducers (II) Analysis by using finite element method. H. FUKUKITA and A. FUKUMOTO,

Matsushita Research Inst., Kawasaki, Japan.

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Studies on the Effect of Ultrasound on the Colony Formation of Cultured Cells in vitro (3). T. YOSHIGA and K. MAEDA,

Tottori University School of Medicine, Yonago, Japan.

Ultrasound Irradiation Effect on Embryos (5) Effect of continuous ultrasound irradiation on pre-implanted rat embryos. N. AKAMATSU, K. NIWA, K. SEKIBA and K. UTSUMI,

Okayama Red Cross Hospital, Okayama, 700 Japan.

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OBSTETRICS AND GYNECOLOGY

Muitisystem of Electronic Scanner in Obs- tetrics. Y. CHINA, H. TAKEMURA, T. I-IASEGAWA, M. AOKI, S. IMAI, S. OMINATO, M. ASADA and H. KURACHI,

Osaka University Medical School, Osaka, Japan.

Clinical Application of Electronic Real Time Scanner Especially for Umbilical Cord and Placenta. K. HARA, S. SAKAMOTO et al.,

University of Tokyo Medical School, Tokyo, Japan.

Clinical Evaluation of Uitrasonogram with High-speed Electronic Scanner Within 2 Months of Pregnancy. Y. MORITA, M. HOGAKI, J. MIKAM1, T. ISHIDA, S. MINOURA, K. HARA and S. SAK- AMOTO,

Aiiku Hospital, Tokyo, Japan.

Study of Fetal Anatomy Using Electronic Linear Scanning System. S. MINOURA, K. HARA, T. OKAI and S. SAKAMOTO,

University of Tokyo Medical School, Tokyo, Japan.

Electronic Linear Scanning Tomography in Obstetrics. K. NIWA, M. KIRA, S. KATAYAMA, A. UNO, K. SEKIBA, S. KOBAYASHI and N. AKAMATSU,

Okayama University Medical School, Okayama 700, Japan.

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Japan Society of Ultrasonics

Ultrasonographic Diagnosis of Ovarian Tumors. H. SAKAMOTO, K. DOBASHI, S. KAWAI, Y. NOMURA, Y. FUKUI and S. TAKAGI,

Nihon University Medical School, Nioh, Japan.

Ultilization of Gray Scale Tomography for Diagnosis of Ovarian Tumor. K. SUGIURA and S. KUWABARA,

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Kanazawa Medical University, Uchinada-Machi, Ishikawa-ken, Japan.

Experimental Utilization of the Coating Con- cave Spherical Transducer in Obstetrics and Gynecology. S. KOBAYASHI, M. KIRA, Y. YAMAMOTO, K. NIWA and S. SEKIBA,

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Y. YAMAMOTO, K. NIWA, S. KOBAYASHI and K. SEKIBA,

Okayama University School of Medicine, Okay- ama, Japan.

Clinical Investigation for Continuous Recording of the Interval of Ultrasonic Dop- pler Fetal Heart Signals (3rd Report).

M. TATSUMURA, M. TERAHARA and K. MAEDA,

Tottori University School of Medicine, Japan.

SYMPOSIUM (1)

The Present and the Future States of the Tissue-Imaging Thermography. Y. SAKURAI,

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Okayama University Medical School, Okayama, Japan.

Ultrasound Tomogram of Partial Hydatidi- form Mole. M. KIRA, K. NIWA, S. KATAYAMA, A. UNO, K. SEKIBA, S. KOBAYASHI and N. AKAMATSU,

Okayama University Medical School, Okayama, Japan.

Multivariate Analysis of the Findings in Threatened Abortion by Sonar. S. IMAI, H. TAKEMURA, Y. CHINA, T. HASEGAWA, S. OOMINATO, M. ASADA and K. KURACHI,

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Osaka University Medical School, Osaka, Japan. 124.

Fetal Thorax Diameter by Ultrasonic Tomo- graphy. F. NII, H. NAKANO, T. KOYANAGI and C. SAKAMOTO,

Kyushu University Medical School, Fukuoka, Japan.

Mapping of Pelvic Cavity by Ultrasonic Tomography (VlI). T. KOYANAGI, H. NAKANO, F. NII, C. SAK- AMOTO,

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Tokyo Women's Medical College, Tokyo, Japan.

Present and Future of X-Ray CT. Y. UMEGAKI,

National Institute of Radiological Sciences, Tokyo, Japan.

Ultrasonic Imaging, the Present Time and Future. M. IDE,

Musashi Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan.

Medical Imaging by Nuclear Medicine. M. IIo,

Tokyo Metropolitan Geriatric Hospital, Tokyo, Japan.

A Prospect of Acoustical Imaging in Medical Use. K. ATSUMI, H. OHMICHI, M. NAHURA, K. NOGAMI, S. MINOURA, S. SAKAMOTO, M. MARUYAMA and R. OMOTO,

University of Tokyo Medical School, Tokyo, Japan.

SYMPOSIUM (2)

Echocardiography in Diagnosing Congenital Heart Diseases. Y. NIMURA,

Osaka University Medical School, Osaka, Japan.

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Kyushu University Medical School, Fukuoka, Japan.

Ultrasono-tomographic Analysis of Gestat- ional Sac in the First Trimester of the Pregnancy.

126. The Clinical Application of the Echo-Cardio- graphymPast, Present and Future. M. TANAKA,

Tohoku University Medical School, Sendai, Japan.

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Echocardiographic Evaluation of Cardiac Function. K. MACHII, T. TAMURA, T. NATSUME and T. UMEDA,

Mitsui Memorial Hospital, Tokyo, Japan.

PANEL DISCUSSION (1)

Assessment of Diagnostic Characteristics of Echocardiography and Phonocardiography: Clinical Observations. T. SAKAMOTO,

Y. NAGAI, K. SHIMIZU, Y. SATO, Y. KOMA- TSU, K. NAKAMURA, A. TAKAO, H. ADACHI and N. KIKUCH,

Tokyo Women's Medical College, Tokyo, Japan.

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PANEL DISCUSSION (2)

Problems in Echocardiographic Identification of the Endocardium, Epieardium and Peri- cardium of the Posterior Left Ventricle. J. YOSHIKAWA, K. YANAGIHARA, T. OWAKI, H. KATO, T. SUZUKI, Y. TAKAGI, F. OKU- MACHI and K. YOSHIDA,

University of Tokyo Medical School, Tokyo, Japan.

Echo-Cardiography and Dye Dilution Method in Evaluating Cardiac Patients. T. HAYASHI, R. SUN, T. YAMAKADO, K. KANEMASA, S. OTANI, Y. KOHASHI, K. ISHIKAWA and R. KATORI,

Kinki University School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan.

The Role of Echocardiography and Radioiso- tope Examination in Myocardial Infarction. S. MORIOKA, T. HOSHINO and R: KUSUKAWA,

Tenri Hospital, Nara, Japan.

Characteristics of Echocardiography and Angiocardiography in Diagnosing Heart Dis- eases. S. BEPPU,

Osaka University Medical School, Osaka, Japan.

Echo-Cardiographic Usefulness in Congenital Heart Disease.

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Kobe Municipal Central Hospital, Kobe, Japan.

Clinical and Experimental Studies on the Identification of the Endocardial Echoes. T. FUJINO, S. KANAYA, M. HIRATA, E. KURATA, M. FUJINO and M. ITo,

Kyushu University Medical School, Fukuoka, Japan.

Ultrasono-Cardiotomography. Y. TERASAWA,

Tohoku University Medical School, Sendai, Japan.

Comparison of Mechanical and Electronic High Speed Scanner. Y. TAKEMURA,

Toshiba Tamagawa Works, Kawasaki, Japan.

Imaging of Cardiac Structures and Analysis of Their Motion by Electronic Sector Scan- ning Two-Dimensional Echocardiography. H. MATSUO,

Osaka University Medical School, Osaka, Japan.