エラストグラフィー

Elastography is any of a class of medical imaging diagnostic methods that map the elastic properties and stiffness of soft tissue. The main idea is that whether the tissue is hard or soft will give diagnostic information about the presence or status of disease. For example, cancerous tumours will often be harder than the surrounding tissue, and diseased livers are stiffer than healthy ones.

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Diagnostic.Name: Elastography
Diagnostic.Image: Thyroid SSI Szczepanek-Parulska et al. 2013 papillary thyroid carcinoma elastography.png
Diagnostic.Alt: Scale is in kPa of Young's modulus
Diagnostic.Caption: Conventional ultrasonography (lower image) and elastography (supersonic shear imaging; upper image) of papillary thyroid carcinoma, a malignant cancer. The cancer (red) is much stiffer than the healthy tissue.
Diagnostic.MeshID: D054459

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