From times immemorial manual palpation served as a source of information on the state of
soft tissues and allowed detection of various diseases accompanied by changes in tissue …

Acoustic radiation force impulse (ARFI) imaging is a new and promising ultrasound-based
diagnostic technique that, evaluating the wave propagation speed, allows the assessment of …

Background and aims: The current study aims to evaluate the performance of a new
elastographic method (ARFI) in noninvasive fibrosis assessment and to compare it to …

Purpose Virtual Touch tissue quantification is an implementation of ultrasound (US) Acoustic
Radiation Force Impulse (ARFI) imaging that provides numerical measurements (wave …

The aim of this study was to determine the appearance of breast lesions using acoustic
radiation force impulse imaging (ARFI) and to correlate the ARFI values with the pathologic …

Energy is transferred (336) to cause a mechanical property of biological tissue to change, as
in ablation. An effect of the transferring is examined in more than one spatial dimension to …

OBJECTIVE. The purpose of this study was to describe the most reliable measurement
procedure for acoustic radiation force impulse technology and to define the normal wave …

Purpose To evaluate conventional ultrasonography (US), US elasticity imaging (EI), and
acoustic radiation force impulse (ARFI) imaging in thyroid nodule malignancy prediction …

Objective. Acoustic radiation force impulse imaging (ARFI) is a non-invasive method for the
quantification of liver stiffness. We aimed to develop standards for the measuring procedure …

Our study assessed acoustic radiation force impulse (ARFI) reproducibility and the factors
influencing it. The intra-and interoperator reproducibility were studied in 33 and 58 patients …