Seeing the unseen with superb microvascular imaging: Ultrasound depiction of normal dermis vessels

Current color- and power-Doppler techniques cannot demonstrate vascularization of the dermis. Aim of this prospective study was to investigate whether the new superb vascular imaging (SMI) technique improves the ultrasound (US) depiction of dermis vessels in healthy volunteers. SMI was compared side-by-side to conventional power-Doppler (PD) imaging.Thirty adult subjects (18 men and 12 women, mean age 45 years old) were evaluated with US at...