Use of mathematical interpolation in Digital Signal Processing applications often seems to be a remarkable solution when applied for noise reduction. In the last two decades advancement in the Elasticity imaging of tissue is worth mentioning. Two dimensional spline technique for generating Elastograms is fairly a new approach for generating ultrasonic Elastograms. In the way of analyzing imagin...

Background: Gynecologic conditions including uterine fibroids, adenomyosis and endometriosis lead to significant impairment in women’s’ lives and significant expen- Abstracts of the 12th Royan International Congress on Reproductive Biomedicine International Journal of Fertility & Sterility (IJFS), Vol 5, Suppl 1, Summer 2011 24 ditures of health care dollars. However, many women have symptoms l...

PURPOSE Pressure ulcers are areas of soft tissue breakdown induced by a sustained mechanical stress that damages the skin and underlying tissues. They represent a considerable burden to the society in terms of health care and cost. Yet, techniques for prevention and detection of pressure ulcers still remain very limited. In this article, the authors investigated the potential of ultrasound elas...

Background Shear wave elastography (SWE) is a recent development in ultrasound (SW-EUS). SWE allows quantitative evaluation of the elastic properties and stiffness tissue serves as an adjunct to conventional US techniques. There hypothesis that rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients would have softer synovium than controls this could be quantified with slower SWV. We also assessed whether SWV varie...

There can be no doubt that the addition of ultrasound to regional anaesthesia has enabled anaesthetists to directly visualise key anatomy and monitor local anaesthetic spread [1]. A recent meta-analysis of 42 studies has shown an increase in the proportion of patients receiving good quality nerve block without need for rescue analgesia to be 93% for ultrasoundguided regional anaesthesia (UGRA),...

We present a review of elastography from a systems standard medical practice of soft-tissue palpation is based on point of view. We show that elastography can be viewed as a cascade qualitative assessment of the low-frequency stiffness of tissue. of two distinct processes. The first process involves the mapping of Pathologic changes are generally correlated with changes in the distribution of l...

Richard L. Ehman Department of Radiology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, United States Introduction The anatomy and function of the musculoskeletal system is strongly determined by the mechanical properties of its component tissues: bone, muscle, tendon, ligament, cartilage, and adipose tissue. Efforts to better understand musculoskeletal biomechanics in health and disease have created an increase...

Introductions: Osteoporosis is a systemic skeletal disease characterized by low bone mass and microarchitectural deterioration of bone tissue leading to diminished biomechanical competence of the skeleton and low-trauma or atraumatic fractures. It is a major, increasing health problem causing approximately 2.3 million fractures annually at a cost of more than 23 billion dollars per year in the ...

Introductions: Methotrexate (MTX) has become the most frequently prescribed disease modifying antirheumatic agent (DMARD) for rheumatoid arthritis (RA) [1], due to its efficacy, low cost and tolerability. An ongoing primary concern of MTX treatment is its potential hepatotoxicity. Guidelines published in 1994 by the American College of Rheumatology (ACR) suggest that serum aspartate aminotransf...

Introduction: The stiffness of malignant prostate tissue is elevated as compared to normal or benign tissue, which suggests that the biomechanical properties of prostate tissue may be an independent marker for prostate cancer. Using dynamic MR elastography, micrometer amplitude shear waves are propagated into tissue, and the resulting tissue displacements are measured to calculate the underlyin...