TY - CHAP AU - Binafsha Manzoor Syed AU - Jawaid Naeem Qureshi AU - Bikha Ram Devrajani ED - Monica Lupsor-Platon Y1 - 2019-09-27 PY - 2019 T1 - Shearwave Elastography in Differentiating Benign and Malignant Breast Lesions N2 - Elastography, the science of creating noninvasive images of mechanical characteristics of tissues, has been rapidly evolving in recent years. The advantage of this technique resides in the ability to rapidly detect and quantify the changes in the stiffness of soft tissues resulting from specific pathological or physiological processes. Ultrasound elastography is nowadays applied especially on the liver and breast, but the technique has been increasingly used for other tissues including the thyroid, lymph nodes, spleen, pancreas, gastrointestinal tract, kidney, prostate, and the musculoskeletal and vascular systems. This book presents some of the applications of strain and shear-wave ultrasound elastography in hepatic, pancreatic, breast, and musculoskeletal conditions. BT - Ultrasound Elastography SP - Ch. 8 UR - https://doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.87244 DO - 10.5772/intechopen.87244 SN - 978-1-78985-710-8 PB - IntechOpen CY - Rijeka Y2 - 2024-03-28 ER -