Clinical application of ultrasound elastography

Ultrasound elasticity imaging is a new technique of ultrasound diagnosis. Quantitative information can be obtained in elastic properties within the organization, can identify lesions, and expand the connotation and scope of ultrasonic diagnosis of ultrasound diagnosis theory, and known as the E mode ultrasound. Ultrasound elasticity imaging using tumor or lesion area and the surrounding normal tissue elastic coefficient between different, strain of different size, display color coded, elasticity to distinguish the degree malignantcy of the lesions. It is now currently used in the detection of breast, thyroid, prostate, liver and other organ lesions and plays an important role in the differential diagnosis of benign and malignant tumor.