From times immemorial manual palpation served as a source of information on the state of
soft tissues and allowed detection of various diseases accompanied by changes in tissue …

The development of ultrasound-based elasticity imaging methods has been the focus of
intense research activity since the mid-1990s. In characterizing the mechanical properties of …

Liver fibrosis is part of the structural and functional alterations in most chronic liver diseases.
It is one of the main prognostic factors as the amount of fibrosis is correlated with the risk of …

Acoustic Radiation Force Impulse (ARFI) imaging is a novel ultrasound‐based elastography
method that is integrated in a conventional ultrasound machine enabling the exact …

The noninvasive quantitation of liver stiffness (LS) by ultrasound based transient
elastography using FibroScan® has revolutionized the diagnosis of liver diseases, namely …

Conventional imaging techniques cannot provide information about tissue mechanical
properties. Many injuries can cause changes in tissue stiffness, especially tumors and …

Purpose To evaluate the accuracy of shear-wave elastography (SWE) for staging liver
fibrosis in patients with diffuse liver disease (including patients with hepatitis C virus [HCV]) …

Objectives Acoustic radiation force impulse (ARFI) imaging is an ultrasound-based
elastography method that is integrated into a conventional ultrasound machine. A meta …

Conclusions: LSM from TE, shear wave elastography, and MRE shows acceptable to
outstanding accuracy for the detection of liver fibrosis across various liver disease etiologies …

Conventional diagnostic ultrasound images portray differences in the acoustic properties of
soft tissues, whereas ultrasound-based elasticity images portray differences in the elastic …