Ultrasound and Elastography

To explain the elastography, Ophir compares the body with a mattress of box-arises, but “a made insane mattress of million small springs and each one is little different. Each one moves around ata different rate, according to their individual rigidity.

The cancerous tumours take place like the stiff springs. The normal fabric and the benign lesions are compressed more easily. The traditional echoes of use of ultrasounds and elastography of the high frequency sound greets create images of what continues inside the body, but the elastography goes a stage further.

In traditional ultrasounds, a doctor or a technician places a device held in the hand on the skin which sends waves of its high frequency in the body. The bodies and the fabric reflect the noise behind like echoes, which are sent to a computer which transforms them into image. Many people saw images of ultrasounds of the foetuses in the uterus.