Clinical Feasibility of Liver Elastography

Magnetic resonance elastography of liver: technique, analysis, and clinical applications.

Many pathological processes cause marked changes in the mechanical properties of tissue. MR elastography (MRE) is a noninvasive MRI based technique for quantitatively assessing the mechanical properties of tissues in vivo. MRE is performed by using a vibration source to generate low frequency mechanical waves in tissue, imaging the propagating waves using a phase contrast MRI technique, and the...

Cardiac Elastography - a Feasibility Study

Early detection of cardiovascular diseases has been a very active research area in the medical imaging field, Assessment of the local and global mechanical functions is one of the major goals for accurate diagnosis. In this paper, we studied the use of elastography for estimation and imaging of the local cardiac muscle displacement and strain in vivo. In its noninvasive applications, elastograp...

MR elastography of stroke: A feasibility study

S. Hirsch, K. J. Streitberger, J. R. Hoffmann, R. Klingebiel, D. Klatt, S. Papazoglou, J. Braun, and I. Sack Institute of Radiology, Charité University Medicine Berlin, Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Institute of Neurology, Charité University Medicine Berlin, Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Institute of Neuroradiology, Charité University Medicine Berlin, Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Institute of Medical Informa...

Liver elastography - an update.

Liver fibrosis evaluation is very important for treatment and prognosis in patients with chronic liver disease. The "gold-standard" method for liver fibrosis assessment is still considered to be the liver biopsy, but in the last years non-invasive methods have increasingly been used, especially ultrasound based elastographic ones. The oldest and the only validated elastographic method for non-i...

Optical Elastography: From Theory to Clinical Applications