Modality Independent Elastography
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Introduction While traditional imaging modalities such as magnetic resonance (MR), computed tomography (CT) and ultrasound (US) have had a dramatic impact on detection and diagnosing tissue abnormalities, their benefit in the early detection and characterization of breast cancer pathology has been limited. As a result, alternative imaging modalities designed to characterize the material properties (i.e. stiffness, conductivity, absorption, etc.) of tissue have become of great interest to the medical imaging community. One such imaging technique is known as elastography (i.e. direct imaging of tissue stiffness).
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