Ultrasound-based shear wave elastography (SWE) has recently gained substantial attention for non-invasive assessment of liver fibrosis. The purpose of this study was to perform an intra-individual comparison between 2-D shear wave elastography (2-D-SWE with a GE system) and Virtual Touch Tissue Quantification (VTTQ with a Siemens system) to assess whether these can be used interchangeably to gr...

The feasibility for retrieving the mass of snow on ground (the snow water equivalent, SWE) by means of repeat-pass SAR interferometry has been investigated. Because the SAR signal of ground covered by dry snow is dominated by backscatter from the snow/ground interface, the differential phase shift due to propagation in the snow can be directly related to SWE. The factors of relevance for cohere...

We have studied synaptic function in a transgenic mouse strain relevant to Alzheimer's disease (AD), overexpressing the 695 amino acid isoform of human amyloid precursor protein with K670N and M671L mutations (APP(695)SWE mice), which is associated with early-onset familial AD. Aged-transgenic mice had substantially elevated levels of Abeta (up to 22 micromol/gm) and displayed characteristic Ab...

PURPOSE Smooth muscle cells (SMCs) of cavernosum play an important role in erection. It is of great significance to quantitatively analyze the level of SMCs in penis. In this study, we investigated the feasibility of shear wave elastography (SWE) on evaluating the level of SMCs in penis quantitatively. MATERIALS AND METHODS Twenty healthy male rats were selected. The SWE imaging of penis was ...

OBJECTIVES Emerging technologies for monitoring subclinical liver fibrosis include transient elastography (TE) and shear wave elastography (SWE). A systematic review was conducted to assess the prevalence and report on predictors of liver fibrosis as detected by these technologies in inflammatory arthritis (IA) patients, including rheumatoid arthritis, spondyloarthritis and juvenile idiopathic ...

We investigated the e€ect of increasing spatial and temporal resolutions on modelled distributions of snow water equivalence (SWE) and snowmelt in the Emerald Lake Watershed (ELW) of the Sierra Nevada of California, USA. We used a coupled remote sensing/distributed energy balance snowmelt model (SNODIS), and used previously validated results from a high spatial (30 m) and temporal (hourly) reso...

Shear wave elastography (SWE) is a promising tool for estimating musculoskeletal tissue properties, but few studies have rigorously assessed its repeatability and sources of error. The objectives of this study were to assess: (1) the extent to which probe positioning error and human user error influence measurement accuracy, (2) intra-user, inter-user, and day-to-day repeatability, and (3) the ...

[1] A study of the influences of interdecadal and interannual oceanic-atmospheric influences on April 1 Snow-Water Equivalent (SWE) in the western U.S. is presented. SWE data was identified at 323 Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) SNOTEL (SNOwpack TELemetrysites) stations for the period of 1961 to 2004 and for 121 SNOTEL stations for the period 1941 to 2004. The phases (cold/negativ...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to evaluate how the anisotropy and the static stretch stress of the cervical musculature influence the measured shear modulus in a tissue-mimicking phantom and in cervical lymph nodes in vivo by using shear wave elastography (SWE). METHODS SWE was performed on a phantom using a pig muscle and on the middle jugular cervical lymph nodes in six volunteers. T...

We present a modeling approach t at couples information about snow cover duration from remote sensing with a distributed nergy balance model to calculate he spatial distribution of s ow ater equivalence (SWE) in a 1.2 km 2mountain basin atthe peak of the accumulation season. I situ measurements of incident solar radiation, incident longwave radiation, air temperature, relative humidity, and win...