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Ultrasound Elasticity Imaging Methods  

Jeong, Mok-Kun (Departments of Electronic and Communication Engineering, Daejin University)
Kwon, Sung-Jae (Departments of Electronic and Communication Engineering, Daejin University)
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The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea / v.29, no.1E, 2010 , pp. 1-10 More about this Journal
Abstract
The difference in echogenicity between cancerous and normal tissues is not quite distinguishable in ultrasound B-mode imaging. However, tumor or cancer in breast or prostate tends to be stiffer than the surrounding normal tissue. Thus, imaging the stiffness contrast between the two different tissue types is helpful for quantitative diagnosis, and such a method of imaging the elasticity of human tissue is collectively referred to as ultrasound elasticity imaging. Recently, elasticity imaging has established itself as an effective diagnostic modality in addition to ultrasound B-mode imaging. The purpose of this paper is to present various elasticity imaging methods that have been reported up to now and to describe their principles of operation and characteristics.
Keywords
ARFI; Elastography; SSI; Sonoelastography; SWEI; Vibro-acoustography;
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