C. L. Johnson, D. Chen, H. Sharma, B. P. Sutton, W. C. Olivero, and J. G. Georgiadis Mechanical Science and Engineering Department, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States, Bioengineering Department, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaig...

AIM This study was designed to assess the possible usefulness of shear-wave elastography in differentiating between benign and malignant tissue in prostate neoplasia. PATIENTS AND METHODS A total of 120 prostate tissue samples were obtained from 10 patients treated by radical prostatectomy and investigated pre-operatively by ultrasound elastography followed by directed biopsy. After resection...

cc ep te d A rti cl e On the safety of elastography in fetal medicine: A preliminary study of hypoacusia 1Paloma Massó, 1Guillermo Rus, 2Francisca Molina 1University of Granada Structural Mechanics, University of Granada Politecnico de Fuentenueva Granada, Spain 2 San Cecilio University Hospital (HUSC) Maternal-Fetal Medicine Unit. Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Granada, Spain Cor...

PURPOSE The aim of this study was to evaluate and compare the diagnostic performance of grayscale ultrasonography (US), US elastography, and US computer-aided diagnosis (US-CAD) in the differential diagnosis of breast masses. METHODS A total of 193 breast masses in 175 consecutive women (mean age, 46.4 years) from June to August 2015 were included. US and elastography images were obtained and...

OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to evaluate whether ultrasound elastography performed by using carotid pulsation as a compression source and generating the systolic thyroid stiffness index (STSI) can be used as a pre-fine-needle aspiration (FNA) screening tool. METHODS: Ultrasound data previously acquired from 62 thyroid nodules in 59 patients who underwent a thyroid FNA were used. Pul...

Introduction: Magnetic resonance elastography (MRE) is a non invasive method that combines externally applied vibrations with the motion sensitivity of MRI to measure the shear elasticity soft tissues [1]. In MRE this is traditionally achieved by solving an inverse problem with MRE shear wave images as input data [2]. A complementary approach, which does not require the solution of an inverse p...

The positive relationship between hippocampal structure, aerobic fitness, and memory performance is often observed among children and older adults; but evidence of this relationship among young adults, for whom the hippocampus is neither developing nor atrophying, is less consistent. Studies have typically relied on hippocampal volumetry (a gross proxy of tissue composition) to assess individua...