Quantitative Assessment of Breast Lesion Viscoelasticity: Initial Clinical Results Using Supersonic Shear Imaging

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 34, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1373-1386

  Tanter, Mickael ^a   Bercoff, Jeremy ^b   Athanasiou, Alexandra ^c   Deffieux, Thomas ^a   Gennisson, Jean Luc ^a   Montaldo, Gabriel ^a   Muller, Marie ^a   Tardivon, Anne ^c   Fink, Mathias ^a  

^a INSTITUT LANGEVIN   (France)

^b SUPERSONIC IMAGINE   (France)

^c INSTITUT CURIE   (France)

Author keywords

Acoustic radiation force; Breast; Cancer; Elastography; Shear wave imaging; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC RADIATION FORCE; BI-RADS; BREAST; BREAST LESIONS; BREAST TISSUES; CANCER; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL FEASIBILITY; CLINICAL INVESTIGATION; ELASTICITY VALUES; ELASTOGRAPHY; IMAGING MODALITIES; IN-VIVO; LINEAR PROBING; LOCAL ESTIMATION; MALIGNANT LESIONS; QUANTITATIVE ASSESSMENTS; RADIATION FORCE; REAL TIME; RELATIVE STIFFNESS; SHEAR ELASTICITY; SHEAR MODULUS; SHEAR WAVE IMAGING; SHEAR WAVE VELOCITIES; SUPERSONIC SHEAR IMAGING; TISSUE ELASTICITY; ULTRA-FAST; ULTRA-FAST IMAGING; ULTRASONIC BEAMS; ULTRASOUND;

BISMUTH PLATING; ELASTIC WAVES; ELASTICITY; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MEDICAL IMAGING; SHEAR WAVES; STANDARDS; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS; ULTRASONIC TESTING;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELASTOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGING SYSTEM; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHEAR RATE; ULTRASOUND; VISCOELASTICITY;

ADULT; AGED; BREAST CYST; BREAST DISEASES; BREAST NEOPLASMS; ELASTICITY; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MIDDLE AGED; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STRESS, MECHANICAL; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, MAMMARY; VISCOSITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 50049134335     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2008.02.002     Document Type: Article

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