Assessment of liver fibrosis with Supersonic Shear Wave elastography (Aixplorer™) in comparison to the transient elastography (Fibroscan®) and Acoustic Radiation Force Impulse (AR…
L Gerber, A Buslau, A Reichhardt, D Fitting, AO Tal, V Knop, A Vermehren, K Sprinzl, S Zeuzem, M Friedrich-Rust · Ultraschall in der Medizin - European Journal of Ultrasound · 2013 · Heft 10
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Purpose: The knowledge of the stage of liver fibrosis allows appraising the progress, prognosis, surveillance and treatment decision in patients with chronic liver diseases. Shear-wave elastography (SWE) is a novel technique obtaining elastography images. It is based on the combination of a radiation force induced in a tissue by an ultrasonic beam and an ultrafast imaging sequence capable of catching in real time the propagation of the resulting shear waves [1,2]. In the present study the assessment of liver fibrosis using the ultrasonic-based method – Supersonic Shear Wave Elastography (SWE) (Aixplorer™, SuperS…