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Showing 1 to 2 of 2 for “"ultrasound elasticity imaging"”.
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A 3-D Multiparametric Ultrasound Elasticity Imaging System for Targeted Prostate Biopsy Guidance
… serum, clinical guidelines recommend transrectal ultrasound-guided biopsy. However, lesions are often indistinguishable from noncancerous prostate tissue in conventional B-mode ultrasound images, which have a diagnostic sensitivity of about 30%, so the biopsy is not typically targeted to …
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Identifying Vulnerable Plaques with Acoustic Radiation Force Impulse Imaging
… that Acoustic Radiation Force Impulse (ARFI) imaging can noninvasively identify lipid regions, that have been shown to increase a plaque's propensity to rupture, within carotid artery plaques <italic>in vivo</italic>. The work detailed herein describes development efforts and results from …