ArticleBiomedical physics & engineering express2019
Attenuation Measuring Ultrasound Shearwave Elastography as a Method for Evaluating Pancreatic Viscoelasticity.
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Pancreatic cancer is the fourth most common cause of cancer-related fatalities as there are a limited number of tools to diagnose this disease in its early stages. Pancreatitis is characterized as an inflammation of the pancreatic tissue due to an excess amount of pancreatic enzymes remaining in the organ. Both of these diseases result in a stiffening of the tissue which makes them suitable for the use of elastography techniques as a diagnostic method. However, these methods typically assume that the tissue is purely elastic when biological tissue is inherently viscoelastic. The attenuation measuring ultrasound shear elastography (AMUSE) method, which measures both attenuation and shear wave velocity was used to characterize the viscoelasticity of pancreatic tissue. This method was tested in
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