shear wave ultrasound elastography,swuse

Figure 1 Liver stiffness in a controls. This figure shows the color map (left) and the propagation map (right) of the shear waves displayed together. The reliability of measurement was tested by the propagation map as the lines are parallel to each other and the intervals between them are constant; thus, the measurement is considered reliable. Using the region of interest, the stiffness was 5.8 kPa.​

Figure 2 Spleen stiffness in a patient with cirrhosis. This figure shows measurement of spleen stiffness in patients with cirrhosis using two-dimensional shear wave elastography showing yellow-red color map with wide parallel lines in propagation map; meaning that higher stiffness with reliable measurement. spleen stiffness here was 51.8 kP.

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