ArticleCurrent medical imaging2025
Sound Touch Viscosity (STVi) for Thyroid Gland Evaluation in Healthy Individuals: A Pilot Study : STVi for Thyroid Gland Evaluation.
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- Sound touch viscosity imaging for chronic kidney disease staging: a novel biomarker for renal fibrosis.Quantitative imaging in medicine and surgery · 2025Article
- Sound touch viscosity in the evaluation of median nerve in healthy volunteers-a preliminary study.BMC medical imaging · 2025Article
- A clinically applicable CKD diagnostic model derived from sound touch viscosity ultrasound and LASSO regression.Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2025Article
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objectiveThis prospective study aimed to establish the typical viscosity range of the thyroid gland in healthy individuals using a new method called the Sound Touch Viscosity (STVi) technique with a linear array transducer.
methodsSeventy-eight healthy volunteers were enrolled between March, 2023 and April, 2023. Thyroid viscosity was measured using the Resona R9 ultrasound system equipped with a linear array transducer (L15-3WU). Each patient had three valid viscosity measurements taken for each thyroid lobe, and the average values were analyzed. Thyroid gland stiffness was measured and analyzed simultaneously.
resultsThe study included 51 women and 27 men with an average age of 48 years. The mean viscosity measurement for a normal thyroid gland was 1.10 ± 0.41 Pa.s (ranging from 0.38 to 2.25 Pa.s). There were no significant differences in viscosity between the left and right lobes of the thyroid gland. We found no significant variations in viscosity based on gender, age, or body mass index (BMI). There was a notable positive correlation between thyroid viscosity and stiffness measurements (r = 0.717, p < 0.001).
conclusionOur findings suggest that STVi is a highly reliable method for assessing the thyroid. This technique holds promise as a new, non-invasive approach to evaluating thyroid parenchyma viscosity.
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