Elastography

Lawrence, A J; Muthupillai, Raja; Ehman, Richard L.

doi:10.1002/9780470034590.emrstm0148

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“…For example, Kruse et al (2000) reported values of approximately 15 kPa and 50 kPa for fat tissues and tumour, respectively, which are different compared with the 3.0 kPa and 25.0 kPa obtained by McKnight et al (2002). Xydeas et al (2005), Sinkus et al (2000) and Lawrence et al (1998) shown a similar results for normal tissue (fat and glandular tissues). It is important to note that the variability of the results reported by MRE elastography may be associated with the variability in the test procedure (such as the different shear wave frequencies applied).…”

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“…3.1, breast tissue's elastic modulus can be measured in vivo using magnetic 510 resonance elastography. Lawrence et al (1998), were among the first to study in vivo breast MRE. A total of nine healthy female volunteers have been evaluated, and demonstrated that MRE is feasible and can adequately illuminate the breast tissues with shear waves and can characterize biomechanical properties of glandular tissue (2.45 ± 0.2 kPa) and fat tissue (0.43 ± 0.07 kPa).…”

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Biomechanical properties of breast tissue, a state-of-the-art review

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This paper reviews the existing literature on the tests used to determine the mechanical properties of women breast tissues (fat, glandular and tumour tissue) as well as the different values of these properties. The knowledge of the mechanical properties of breast tissue is important for cancer detection, study and planning of surgical procedures such as surgical breast reconstruction using pre-surgical methods and improving the interpretation of clinical tests. Based on the data collected from the analysed studies, some important conclusions were achieved: (1) the Young's modulus of breast tissues is highly dependent on the tissue preload compression level, and (2) the results of these studies clearly indicate a wide variation in moduli not only among different types of tissue but also within each type of tissue. These differences were most evident in normal fat and fibroglandular tissues.

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