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MeSH Heading: Elasticity Imaging Techniques
Tree Number(s): E01.370.350.850.270
Unique ID: D054459
RDF Unique Identifier: http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D054459
Annotation: coordinate with specific technique for elasticity imaging techniques other than ultrasonography
Scope Note: Non-invasive imaging methods based on the mechanical response of an object to a vibrational or impulsive force. It is used for determining the viscoelastic properties of tissue, and thereby differentiating soft from hard inclusions in tissue such as microcalcifications, and some cancer lesions. Most techniques use ultrasound to create the images - eliciting the response with an ultrasonic radiation force and/or recording displacements of the tissue by Doppler ultrasonography.
Entry Term(s): ARFI Imaging; Acoustic Radiation Force Impulse Imaging; Elastograms; Elastography; Magnetic Resonance Elastography; Sonoelastography; Tissue Elasticity Imaging; Vibro-Acoustography
Previous Indexing: Elasticity (1993-2007)
Public MeSH Note: 2008
History Note: 2008
Date Established: 2008/01/01
Date of Entry: 2007/07/09
Revision Date: 2011/06/24

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Concept UI: M0505184
Scope Note: Non-invasive imaging methods based on the mechanical response of an object to a vibrational or impulsive force. It is used for determining the viscoelastic properties of tissue, and thereby differentiating soft from hard inclusions in tissue such as microcalcifications, and some cancer lesions. Most techniques use ultrasound to create the images - eliciting the response with an ultrasonic radiation force and/or recording displacements of the tissue by Doppler ultrasonography.
Terms: Elasticity Imaging Techniques Preferred Term
Term UI T688665
Date01/03/2007
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (2008); Tissue Elasticity Imaging
Term UI T688666
Date01/03/2007
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (2008); Elastography
Term UI T688667
Date01/03/2007
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (2008)

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