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ArticleCurrent medical imaging reviews2012

Mechanical Imaging - a Technology for 3-D Visualization and Characterization of Soft Tissue Abnormalities. A Review.

A Sarvazyan, V Egorov

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Article in Current medical imaging reviews, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT01491334 (A Clinical Validation Study With Transvaginal Tactile Imaging), which is not on this map. Cited by 1 paper.

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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NCT01491334 completednot on this map

A Clinical Validation Study With Transvaginal Tactile Imaging

TypeobservationalSponsorArtann LaboratoriesRan2011 to 2013Enrolled158ConditionsPelvic Organ Prolapse
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

A SarvazyanArtann Laboratories, Trenton, NJ, USA.
V Egorov

Funding

PORTABLE IMAGING DEVICE FOR PROSTATE CANCER DETECTIONR44CA082620 · NCI · ARTANN LABORATORIES, INC. · PI SARVAZYAN, ARMEN · 2002 to 2009
$4.2M
IMAGING NETWORK FOR BREAST CANCER MASS SCREENINGR44CA091392 · NCI · ARTANN LABORATORIES, INC. · PI SARVAZYAN, ARMEN · 2004 to 2007
$2.2M
Vaginal Tactile Imager for Pelvic Floor Biomechanical AssessmentR43AG034714 · NIA · ARTANN LABORATORIES, INC. · PI EGOROV, VLADIMIR · 2009 to 2009
$208k
USE OF A TACTILE BREAST IMAGER FOR MASS PRE-SCREENINGR43CA094444 · NCI · ARTANN LABORATORIES, INC. · PI SARVAZYAN, ARMEN · 2002 to 2002
$131k
NCI NIH HHS R43 CA094444NCI NIH HHS R44 CA082620NCI NIH HHS R44 CA091392NIA NIH HHS R43 AG034714
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Mechanical Imaging (MI) is a branch of Elastography. MI differs from conventional ultrasonic and MR elastography in that it evaluates soft tissue mechanical structure using stress data rather than dynamic or static strain data. MI closely mimics manual palpation because the MI probe with a force sensor array attached to its tip acts as a palpating finger. MI is intrinsically a three-dimensional imaging modality because the surface stress patterns obtained at different levels of tissue compression are defined by three-dimensional mechanical structure of the tissue. This review presents the biomechanical basis of MI and its applications for breast cancer screening, and the differentiation of benign and malignant lesions, the visualization and evaluation of prostate conditions, and for the characterization of vaginal wall elasticity.

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breastcancerelasticity imagingElastographymechanical imagingprostatesoft tissuetactile imaging

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PMID24058326
PMCPMC3776320

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