Elasticity Imaging Techniques
Non-invasive imaging methods based on the mechanical response of an object to a vibrational or impulsive force. It is used for determining the viscoelastic properties of tissue, and thereby differentiating soft from hard inclusions in tissue such as microcalcifications, and some cancer lesions. Most techniques use ultrasound to create the images - eliciting the response with an ultrasonic radiation force and/or recording displacements of the tissue by Doppler ultrasonography.
Year introduced: 2008
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Tree Number(s): E01.370.350.850.270
MeSH Unique ID: D054459
Entry Terms:
- Elasticity Imaging Technique
- Imaging Technique, Elasticity
- Imaging Techniques, Elasticity
- Technique, Elasticity Imaging
- Techniques, Elasticity Imaging
- Elastography
- Elastographies
- Tissue Elasticity Imaging
- Elasticity Imagings, Tissue
- Elasticity Imaging, Tissue
- Imagings, Tissue Elasticity
- Imaging, Tissue Elasticity
- Tissue Elasticity Imagings
- Elastograms
- Elastogram
- Vibro-Acoustography
- Vibro-Acoustographies
- Vibro Acoustography
- Sonoelastography
- Sonoelastographies
- Magnetic Resonance Elastography
- Elastographies, Magnetic Resonance
- Elastography, Magnetic Resonance
- Magnetic Resonance Elastographies
- Resonance Elastographies, Magnetic
- Resonance Elastography, Magnetic
- Acoustic Radiation Force Impulse Imaging
- ARFI Imaging
- ARFI Imagings
- Imaging, ARFI
- Imagings, ARFI
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