What future for ultrasound in medicine?

What comes to mind when asked the question: “Welche Zukunft für Ultraschall in der Medizin” (What Future for Ultrasound in Medicine?)? I guess all of us would think about the editorial policies, publisher’s choices and administrative issues of our beloved journal and might frown. However, at the beginning of the year 2018, the future of the journal is fortunately very bright. It is quite successful and, therefore, the goal of this article is to review some new achievements and exciting future prospects of ultrasound techniques in the various medical fields, including those currently poised to be implemented in daily practice and those that are still only on the distant horizon. We hope readers will be able to discover future ultrasound applications that they are unaware of but may soon have a chance to use. We only regret that this overview will probably seem incomplete due to the limited publication space and the speed of change in these fields.