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  • To assess LACS's ability to improve liver nodule visibility and characterization.

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  • Prospective cross-sectional study of 97 adult patients with liver nodules.
  • LACS images acquired using a phantom-free method.
  • Nodule visibility assessed by contrast-to-noise ratio (CNR); classification accuracy by area under the ROC curve (AUC), sensitivity, and specificity.

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  • LACS imaging yielded significantly higher CNR compared to B-mode ultrasound (p < 0.0001).
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