This edition of Ultrasound includes five papers on elastography. The technique of palpation
in which stiffness of tissues is evaluated by squeezing is well known. In many ways …

Many manufacturers of ultrasound systems offer elastography capabilities. Though the
research literature describes techniques involving external actuators, commercial systems …

Ultrasound elastography is a technique currently under development. Its use in clinical
practice is complicated because of the wide range of techniques used by the different …

Elastography has emerged as a useful adjunct tool for ultrasound diagnosis. Elastograms
are images of tissue stiffness and may be in color, grayscale, or a combination of the two …

With the recent Food and Drug Administration approval for quantification using ultrasound
elastography, these techniques are rapidly gaining acceptance for many clinical …

The technical part of these Guidelines and Recommendations, produced under the auspices
of EFSUMB, provides an introduction to the physical principles and technology on which all …

Ultrasound elastography is an emerging set of imaging modalities used to image tissue
elasticity and are often referred to as virtual palpation. These techniques have proven …

Ultrasound (US) elasticity imaging is an extension of the ancient art of palpation and of
earlier US methods for viewing tissue stiffness such as echopalpation. Elasticity images …

Tissue stiffness assessed by palpation for diagnosing pathology has been used for
thousands of years. Ultrasound elastography has been developed more recently to display …

Ultrasonography has been widely used for diagnosis since it was first introduced in clinical
practice in the 1970's. Since then, new ultrasound modalities have been developed, such as …