Breast cancer shows up larger on an elastogram on a traditional ultrasound image

Echos and movement

Elastography, although, measurement also the movement. Because the doctor moves the device held in the hand against the centre, the device gathers echoes before and after the compression or the movement of fabric of centre. The resulting images show stiff fabrics as dark sectors and soft fabrics as pale zones.

The breast cancer reveals larger on a elastogram than it makes on a traditional image of ultrasounds, perhaps because the can of elastogram “see” fabric of scar around cancer, Ophir known as. Richard Barr, a professor of radiology at the university of the North-East of universities of Ohio of the medicine which brought back its results to the radiological company of the annual meeting of North America.

Siemens Germany-based AG provided the equipment and the software of ultrasounds for the study of Barr. Ophir and any other diagnosis of breast cancer by researchers will be the first real application of the elastography. “If it does not fly there, it will not fly anywhere,” said Elisa Konofagou of the university of Colombia, which examines the elastography on animals and the human ones to determine the extent of the damage after a heart attack.

The uses in cancer of prostate and thyroid cancer are also being studied elsewhere.