ArticleJournal of medical ultrasonics (2001)2020
What is the role of measuring shear wave dispersion using shear wave elastography in pancreatic parenchyma?
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- Simultaneous Evaluation of Shear Wave Elastography and C-Peptide Index for Predicting Need of Insulin Therapy in Type 2 Diabetes: A Pilot Study.Journal of personalized medicine · 2025Article
- Association between intra-pancreatic fat deposition and diseases of the exocrine pancreas: A narrative review.World journal of gastroenterology · 2025Review
- Quantification of Nerve Viscosity Using Shear Wave Dispersion Imaging in Diabetic Rats: A Novel Technique for Evaluating Diabetic Neuropathy.Korean journal of radiology · 2022Article
- Evaluation of ulcerative colitis activity using transabdominal ultrasound shear wave elastography.Quantitative imaging in medicine and surgery · 2022Article
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Abstract
purposeShear wave elastography (SWE) using transabdominal ultrasonography (US) is widely used for diagnosis of tissue stiffness. Ultrasound shear wave dispersion (SWD) enables evaluation of tissue viscosity using SWE. The objective of this study was to investigate the reliability and clinical significance of SWD in pancreatic screening.
methodsSWE and SWD were measured in 76 patients examined by US in pancreatic screenings performed between November 2017 and November 2018. The median pancreatic elastic modulus (PEM) and dispersion slope were obtained from at least five measurements. The reproducibility of these values and their correlations with patient characteristics, pancreatic echogenicity, and the pancreas-to-spleen attenuation ratio (P/S) on plain CT, which is associated with fatty change in pancreatic parenchyma, were investigated retrospectively.
resultsThe median PEM and dispersion slope were 7.4 kPa and 15.7 (m/sec)/kHz, respectively, and both values had high intraclass correlation coefficients, showing high reproducibility (ρ = 0.869 and ρ = 0.867, respectively). The interquartile range/median value of PEM and dispersion slope were 0.36 and 0.28, respectively. PEM had a positive correlation with age (r
conclusionMeasurement of SWD in pancreatic screening was highly reproducible and may permit objective evaluation of fatty change of the pancreas.
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