Background/Objectives: Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), encompassing Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis, is characterized by cycles of inflammation and tissue remodeling that can culminate in fibrosis. Differentiating between early inflamm...
Elastography is a sonographic technique that provides a noninvasive evaluation of the stiffness of a lesion. The objective of this work was to evaluate the accuracy of strain elastography, the most accessible modality in clinical practice, to discrim...
Background. Shear wave elastography is an effective method for studying the condition of various musculoskeletal soft tissues. The primary aim of this study was the objective elastographic and electromyographic assessment of the pelvic floor during t...
Background/Objectives: Medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC) poses diagnostic challenges due to its sonographic similarity to benign nodules and the modest sensitivity of conventional ultrasound (US) and TIRADS-based risk stratification. Elastography, us...
Background/Objectives: Metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) is a heterogeneous condition shaped by metabolic dysfunction, adipose tissue distribution, inflammatory activation, and body composition. Understanding how these...
Background/Objectives: Chronic venous disease (CVD) is a prevalent condition marked by valve dysfunction and increased pressure in lower limb veins. The trans-nodal veins in the inguinal region and Scarpa triangle, which connect the superficial and d...
Exercise has been demonstrated to improve health in people with diabetes. However, exercise may increase risk for foot ulcers because of increased plantar pressure during most weight-bearing physical activities. To date, there is no study investigati...
Canine multicentric lymphoma (CML) is a prevalent hematopoietic neoplasm that initially responds well to treatment but often relapses due to chemotherapy resistance. Evaluation of treatment response is essential for effective management. Ultrasound (...
The nutritional status of children is always a concern for medical professionals. Increasingly, obesogenic factors have created a new global epidemic. Obesity is characterized by persistent inflammation, which can have detrimental effects on the grow...
Uterine fibroids are the most common benign tumors of the uterus. Approximately 20–50% of women with myomas experience a variety of symptoms such as vaginal bleeding, abdominal pain, pelvic pain and pressure, and urological problems, possibly i...
There are data indicating the coexistence of papillary thyroid carcinoma and autoimmune thyroiditis (AIT) in children. The aim of the study was elastographic evaluation of thyroid nodules in children and adolescents with AIT and nodular goiter in rel...
The adoption of multiscale approaches by the biomechanical community has caused a major improvement in quality in the mechanical characterization of soft tissues. The recent developments in elastography techniques are enabling in vivo and non-invasiv...
Objectives: The present study aimed to examine the role of two-dimensional shear wave elastography (SWE) in the assessment of the vascular wall of the carotid arteries and atherosclerotic plaques in patients with rheumatoid arthritis with moderate an...
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Background/Objectives: Clinical assessment of post-stroke spasticity may not fully distinguish neural contributions from structural and mechanical muscle changes. This systematic review examined associations between B-mode ultrasonographic and elasto...
The authors of this paper focused their attention on developing numerical models of mechanical wave propagation along human tissue as a result of the application of the measuring head of the FibroScan® elastograph. The FibroScan® diagnostic d...
Background: Non-specific neck pain is associated with altered muscle mechanical properties, including increased stiffness. Radial extracorporeal shockwave therapy (rESWT) and orthopedic manual therapy (OMT) are commonly used interventions, although t...
Background: the incidence of Achilles tendon (AT) rupture is rising; however, there is no clear consensus regarding the optimal treatment. The aim of this retrospective study was to compare instrumental and patient-reported outcome scores after fast...
(1) Background: Ultrasound (US) elastography is an imaging technology that reveals tissue stiffness. This study aimed to investigate whether fibrotic focus (FF) affects elastographic findings in breast cancer, and to evaluate the clinical significanc...
Objectives: In this study, we aim to determine the elastographic characteristics of both primary and secondary hyperparathyroidism using shear wave elastography. We also aim to evaluate the elastographic differences between them, as well as the diffe...
Background and Aims: Elastography can provide information regarding tissue stiffness (TS). This study aimed to analyze the elastographic features of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and the factors that influence intratumoral elastographic variability...
We present a real-time realization of OCT-based elastographic mapping local strains and distribution of the Young’s modulus in biological tissues, which is in high demand for biomedical usage. The described variant exploits the principle of Com...
The authors of this study focused their research on developing cap geometries for the FibroScan® elastograph (FibroScan, EchoSens, Paris, France) measuring head aimed at a non-invasive assessment of liver condition for transplantation using a pig...
The biomechanical properties of soft tissues vary with pathological phenomenon. Ultrasound elasticity imaging is a noninvasive method used to analyze the local biomechanical properties of soft tissues in clinical diagnosis. However, the echo signal-t...
The aim of the study was to investigate if there are changes in elastographic parameters in the cervix at term around the time of delivery and if there are differences in the parameters between women with spontaneous labor and those without labor (la...
Ulcerative colitis (UC) is an inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) that mainly affects developed countries, but the number of cases in developing countries is increasing. We conducted a narrative review on the potential application of ultrasound elastogr...
Sonoelastography is a rapid and non-invasive ultrasound-based technique to assess tissue elasticity. Interest in this technique’s application in veterinary medicine is progressively increasing, with preliminary reports also available to assess...
Background: Thoracic ultrasound (TUS) has emerged as a viable alternative of computed tomography (CT) for pneumothorax diagnosis. Ultrasound elastography (USE), a technique assessing tissue elasticity, has recently been proposed as a novel tool for p...
Breast sonoelastography is a relatively novel ultrasound (US) method that enables estimation of tissue stiffness to estimate the elasticity of normal breast tissue and seek to correlate it with well-known breast cancer risk factors. Two hundred women...
Strain elastography (SE) determines the level of tissue stiffness and thus helps in the diagnosis and differentiation of various pathologies. This paper aims to study the elastographic differences between healthy thyroid parenchyma and ones affected...
Background/Objectives: Capsular contracture remains the most common complication after breast augmentation. The Baker score is a classical, yet subjective method to assess the contracture, therefore more objective and reproducible measures are necess...
Elastography has emerged as a valuable imaging technique that evaluates tissue stiffness and offers complementary insights into conventional ultrasonography. The aim of this article is to review the utility of elastography in assessing salivary gland...
Background/Objectives: Postmortem changes in tissue stiffness and organ morphology are critical for forensic medicine and pathology. Shear wave elastography (SWE) has emerged as a non-invasive tool to assess tissue stiffness, yet its potential for po...
The increasing prevalence of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) in the general population prompts for a quick response from physicians. As NAFLD can progress to liver fibrosis, cirrhosis, and even hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), new non-invasi...
Background/Objectives: Several factors, such as age, parity, body mass index, a favorable cervix, and fetal birth weight, are known to be related to the success of labor induction. With advancements in ultrasound technology, these factors have been s...
Background/Objectives: Carotid artery stenosis (CAS) is one of the main causes of stroke, and the vulnerability of plaque has been proved to be a determinant. A joint analysis of shear wave elastography, a radiofrequency echo-based wall tracking tech...
Background: Elastography can be measured with different imaging techniques and is increasingly used for noninvasive assessment of hepatic fibrosis. Little is known about the performance, and interrelation of different elastographic techniques, in pre...
Metabolic dysfunction-associated fatty liver disease has become the most common chronic liver disease as well as the most common cause for liver transplantation. With its different methods types, elastography of the liver can be used for non-invasive...
Studies performed using transient elastography (TE), point shear wave elastography (pSWE) and two-dimensional shear wave elastography (2D-SWE) have shown that these techniques are all feasible and accurate in children for the evaluation of liver fibr...
Background: Spasticity is a common and disabling symptom of multiple sclerosis (MS), yet its assessment remains challenging. Clinical scales such as the Ashworth Scale (AS) evaluate resistance to passive movement, whereas neurophysiological measures...
The aim of this article is to review the utility of elastography in the day-to-day clinical practice of the urologist. An electronic database search was performed on PubMed and Cochrane Library with a date range between January 2000 and December 2021...
Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is the most prevalent liver disease and is the hepatic expression of metabolic syndrome. The development of non-invasive methods for the diagnosis of hepatic steatosis and advanced fibrosis in high-risk patie...
Purpose: Nontraumatic focal splenic lesions (FSL) are rare, and the need for tissue diagnosis must be weighed against the very high risk of bleeding after a splenic biopsy. The aim of this study was to explore the feasibility and diagnostic potential...
In this study, a novel ultrasonic non-destructive and non-invasive elastography method was introduced and demonstrated to evaluate the mechanical properties of fused deposition modeling 3D printed objects using two-dimensional dynamical elasticity ma...
Viscosity is a novel parameter, recently introduced in the use of elastographic techniques, correlating to shear-wave dispersion. The purpose of this study was to provide normal reference viscosity values for the peripheral muscles in healthy volunte...
The aims of our study were to evaluate the maternal and fetal outcomes of intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy (ICP). In this observational, retrospective case–control study, we included all pregnant women who gave birth with a diagnosis of IC...
Bladder tumors in dogs represent approximately 2% of all malignant lesions recorded, with urothelial carcinoma being the most common and aggressive form. This study aimed to characterize the elastographic properties of canine urothelial carcinoma usi...
Adenomyosis is a complex and poorly understood gynecological disease. It used to be diagnosed exclusively by histology after hysterectomy; today its diagnosis is carried out increasingly by imaging techniques, including transvaginal ultrasound (TVUS)...
Objective: This prospective study aims to investigate the feasibility of Shear-Wave Elastography (SWE) for assessing the mechanical properties of the normal supraspinatus tendon and describing the elastographic features of the supraspinatus tendon un...
Endobronchial ultrasound (EBUS) features with B-, power/color Doppler, and elastography modes help differentiate between benign and malignant lymph nodes (MLNs) during transbronchial needle aspiration (TBNA); however, only few studies have assessed t...
Endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) is an essential technique for the management of several diseases. Over the years, new technologies have been developed to improve and overcome certain limitations related to EUS-guided tissue acquisition. Among these new m...
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