Virtual Touch tissue quantification using acoustic radiation force impulse technology: Initial clinical experience with solid breast masses

Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 289-294

  Bai, Min ^a   Du, Lianfang ^a   Gu, Jiying ^a   Li, Fan ^a   Jia, Xiao ^a  

^a SHANGHAI FIRST PEOPLE S HOSPITAL   (China)

Author keywords

Acoustic radiation force impulse imaging; Shear wave velocity; Solid breast masses; Virtual Touch tissue quantification

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC EMISSIONS; ACOUSTIC RADIATORS; ACOUSTIC WAVE PROPAGATION; ACOUSTIC WAVE TRANSMISSION; ACOUSTIC WAVES; DIAGNOSIS; MEDICAL IMAGING; SHEAR FLOW; SHEAR WAVES; WAVE PROPAGATION;

ACOUSTIC RADIATION FORCE IMPULSE; ACOUSTIC RADIATION FORCE IMPULSE IMAGING; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC CURVES; SHEAR WAVE VELOCITY; SIEMENS MEDICAL SOLUTIONS; SOLID BREAST MASS; VIRTUAL TOUCH;

TISSUE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST TUMOR; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; ECHOMAMMOGRAPHY; ELASTOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PATHOLOGY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, MAMMARY;

EID: 84856740658     PISSN: 02784297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7863/jum.2012.31.2.289     Document Type: Review

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