Elastography, the Glossary
Elastography is any of a class of medical imaging modalities that map the elastic properties and stiffness of soft tissue.[1]
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46 relations: Acoustic radiation force, Ancient Greece, Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children, Biopsy, Brain, Breast, Cancer, Cirrhosis, Disease, Ebers Papyrus, Edwin Smith Papyrus, Elasticity (physics), Elastography, False positives and false negatives, Fatty liver disease, Fibrosis, Hepatitis, Hippocrates, Human musculoskeletal system, Kathryn R. Nightingale, Kidney transplantation, Liver, Magnetic resonance imaging, Medical imaging, Medical ultrasound, Muscle, One-dimensional space, Optical coherence tomography, Palpation, Papillary thyroid cancer, Physics in Medicine and Biology, Prostate, S wave, Scientific literature, Shear modulus, Skin, Soft tissue, Steatosis, Stiffness, Stress (mechanics), Tactile sensor, Tendon, Thyroid, Ultrasound, University of Bristol, Young's modulus.
Acoustic radiation force
Acoustic radiation force (ARF) is a physical phenomenon resulting from the interaction of an acoustic wave with an obstacle placed along its path.
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Ancient Greece
Ancient Greece (Hellás) was a northeastern Mediterranean civilization, existing from the Greek Dark Ages of the 12th–9th centuries BC to the end of classical antiquity, that comprised a loose collection of culturally and linguistically related city-states and other territories.
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Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children
The Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC), also known as Children of the 90s and formerly the Avon Longitudinal Study of Pregnancy and Childhood, is a cohort study of children born in the former county of Avon, England during 1991 and 1992.
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Biopsy
A biopsy is a medical test commonly performed by a surgeon, an interventional radiologist, or an interventional cardiologist.
Brain
The brain is an organ that serves as the center of the nervous system in all vertebrate and most invertebrate animals.
Breast
The breast is one of two prominences located on the upper ventral region of the torso among humans and other primates.
Cancer
Cancer is a group of diseases involving abnormal cell growth with the potential to invade or spread to other parts of the body.
Cirrhosis
Cirrhosis, also known as liver cirrhosis or hepatic cirrhosis, and end-stage liver disease, is a condition of the liver in which the normal functioning tissue, or parenchyma, is replaced with scar tissue (fibrosis) and regenerative nodules as a result of chronic liver disease.
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Disease
A disease is a particular abnormal condition that adversely affects the structure or function of all or part of an organism and is not immediately due to any external injury.
Ebers Papyrus
The Ebers Papyrus, also known as Papyrus Ebers, is an Egyptian medical papyrus of herbal knowledge dating to (the late Second Intermediate Period or early New Kingdom).
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Edwin Smith Papyrus
The Edwin Smith Papyrus is an ancient Egyptian medical text, named after Edwin Smith who bought it in 1862, and the oldest known surgical treatise on trauma.
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Elasticity (physics)
In physics and materials science, elasticity is the ability of a body to resist a distorting influence and to return to its original size and shape when that influence or force is removed.
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Elastography
Elastography is any of a class of medical imaging modalities that map the elastic properties and stiffness of soft tissue. Elastography and Elastography are medical imaging.
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False positives and false negatives
A false positive is an error in binary classification in which a test result incorrectly indicates the presence of a condition (such as a disease when the disease is not present), while a false negative is the opposite error, where the test result incorrectly indicates the absence of a condition when it is actually present.
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Fatty liver disease
Fatty liver disease (FLD), also known as hepatic steatosis and steatotic liver disease (SLD), is a condition where excess fat builds up in the liver.
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Fibrosis
Fibrosis, also known as fibrotic scarring, is a pathological wound healing in which connective tissue replaces normal parenchymal tissue to the extent that it goes unchecked, leading to considerable tissue remodelling and the formation of permanent scar tissue.
Hepatitis
Hepatitis is inflammation of the liver tissue.
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Hippocrates
Hippocrates of Kos (Hippokrátēs ho Kôios), also known as Hippocrates II, was a Greek physician and philosopher of the classical period who is considered one of the most outstanding figures in the history of medicine.
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Human musculoskeletal system
The human musculoskeletal system (also known as the human locomotor system, and previously the activity system) is an organ system that gives humans the ability to move using their muscular and skeletal systems.
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Kathryn R. Nightingale
Kathryn Radabaugh Nightingale is an American biomedical engineer and academic in the field of medical ultrasound.
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Kidney transplantation
Kidney transplant or renal transplant is the organ transplant of a kidney into a patient with end-stage kidney disease (ESRD).
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Liver
The liver is a major metabolic organ exclusively found in vertebrate animals, which performs many essential biological functions such as detoxification of the organism, and the synthesis of proteins and various other biochemicals necessary for digestion and growth.
Magnetic resonance imaging
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a medical imaging technique used in radiology to form pictures of the anatomy and the physiological processes inside the body. Elastography and Magnetic resonance imaging are medical imaging.
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Medical imaging
Medical imaging is the technique and process of imaging the interior of a body for clinical analysis and medical intervention, as well as visual representation of the function of some organs or tissues (physiology).
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Medical ultrasound
Medical ultrasound includes diagnostic techniques (mainly imaging techniques) using ultrasound, as well as therapeutic applications of ultrasound. Elastography and Medical ultrasound are medical imaging.
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Muscle
Muscle is a soft tissue, one of the four basic types of animal tissue.
One-dimensional space
A one-dimensional space (1D space) is a mathematical space in which location can be specified with a single coordinate.
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Optical coherence tomography
Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is an imaging technique that uses interferometry with short-coherence-length light to obtain micrometer-level depth resolution and uses transverse scanning of the light beam to form two- and three-dimensional images from light reflected from within biological tissue or other scattering media.
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Palpation
Palpation is the process of using one's hands to check the body, especially while perceiving/diagnosing a disease or illness.
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Papillary thyroid cancer
Papillary thyroid cancer (papillary thyroid carcinoma, PTC) is the most common type of thyroid cancer, representing 75 percent to 85 percent of all thyroid cancer cases.
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Physics in Medicine and Biology
Physics in Medicine & Biology is a biweekly peer-reviewed medical journal covering research on the application of physics to medicine, physiology, and biology.
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Prostate
The prostate is both an accessory gland of the male reproductive system and a muscle-driven mechanical switch between urination and ejaculation.
S wave
In seismology and other areas involving elastic waves, S waves, secondary waves, or shear waves (sometimes called elastic S waves) are a type of elastic wave and are one of the two main types of elastic body waves, so named because they move through the body of an object, unlike surface waves.
Scientific literature
Scientific literature encompasses a vast body of academic papers that spans various disciplines within the natural and social sciences.
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Shear modulus
In materials science, shear modulus or modulus of rigidity, denoted by G, or sometimes S or μ, is a measure of the elastic shear stiffness of a material and is defined as the ratio of shear stress to the shear strain: where The derived SI unit of shear modulus is the pascal (Pa), although it is usually expressed in gigapascals (GPa) or in thousand pounds per square inch (ksi).
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Skin
Skin is the layer of usually soft, flexible outer tissue covering the body of a vertebrate animal, with three main functions: protection, regulation, and sensation.
Soft tissue
Soft tissue connects and surrounds or supports internal organs and bones, and includes muscle, tendons, ligaments, fat, fibrous tissue, lymph and blood vessels, fasciae, and synovial membranes.
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Steatosis
Steatosis, also called fatty change, is abnormal retention of fat (lipids) within a cell or organ.
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Stiffness
Stiffness is the extent to which an object resists deformation in response to an applied force.
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Stress (mechanics)
In continuum mechanics, stress is a physical quantity that describes forces present during deformation.
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Tactile sensor
A tactile sensor is a device that measures information arising from physical interaction with its environment.
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Tendon
A tendon or sinew is a tough band of dense fibrous connective tissue that connects muscle to bone.
Thyroid
The thyroid, or thyroid gland, is an endocrine gland in vertebrates.
Ultrasound
Ultrasound is sound with frequencies greater than 20 kilohertz.
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University of Bristol
The University of Bristol is a red brick Russell Group research university in Bristol, England.
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Young's modulus
Young's modulus (or Young modulus) is a mechanical property of solid materials that measures the tensile or compressive stiffness when the force is applied lengthwise.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elastography
Also known as Acoustic Radiation Force Impulse (ARFI) Imaging, Acoustic Radiation Force Impulse Imaging, FibroScan, Shear Wave Elasticity Imaging, Shear-wave elasticity imaging, Supersonic Shear Imaging, Tactile imaging, Transient elastography, Ultrasound elastography.