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- Magnetic_resonance_elastography abstract "Magnetic resonance elastography (MRE) is a non-invasive medical imaging technique that measures the mechanical properties (stiffness) of soft tissues by introducing shear waves and imaging their propagation using MRI. Pathological tissues are often stiffer than the surrounding normal tissue. For instance, malignant breast tumors are much harder than healthy fibro-glandular tissue. This characteristic has been used by physicians for screening and diagnosis of many diseases, through palpation. MRE calculates the mechanical parameter as elicited by palpation, in a non-invasive and objective way.Magnetic resonance elastography works by using an additional gradient waveform in the pulse sequence to sensitize the MRI scan to shear waves in the tissue. The shear waves are generated by an electro-mechanical transducer on the surface of the skin. Both the mechanical excitation and the motion sensitizing gradient are at the same frequency. This encodes the amplitude of the shear wave in the tissue in the phase of the MRI image. An algorithm can be used to extract a quantitative measure of tissue stiffness from the MRI in an elastogram.Magnetic resonance elastography (MRE) was pioneered by researchers at the Mayo Clinic, the University of Michigan, and the University of Toronto, starting from the mid 1990s. MRE is being investigated to be used for a multitude of diseases that affect the tissue stiffness. It is currently being clinically used for the assessment of hepatic fibrosis, since it is well known that the liver stiffness increases with the progression of this disease. It is being investigated for the diagnosis of diseases and also for studying the treatment efficacy. For instance, this has been utilized in ablative treatments done focused ultrasound where the treated necrosed tissue can be distinguished with MRE even in real time.".
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- Magnetic_resonance_elastography wikiPageWikiLink Category:Magnetic_resonance_imaging.
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- Magnetic_resonance_elastography wikiPageWikiLink Elastography.
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- Magnetic_resonance_elastography wikiPageWikiLink Minimally-invasive_procedures.
- Magnetic_resonance_elastography wikiPageWikiLink Necrosis.
- Magnetic_resonance_elastography wikiPageWikiLink Non-invasive_(medical).
- Magnetic_resonance_elastography wikiPageWikiLink Palpation.
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- Magnetic_resonance_elastography wikiPageWikiLink S-wave.
- Magnetic_resonance_elastography wikiPageWikiLink Shear_wave.
- Magnetic_resonance_elastography wikiPageWikiLink Stiffness.
- Magnetic_resonance_elastography wikiPageWikiLink Tactile_Imaging.
- Magnetic_resonance_elastography wikiPageWikiLink Tactile_imaging.
- Magnetic_resonance_elastography wikiPageWikiLink University_of_Michigan.
- Magnetic_resonance_elastography wikiPageWikiLink University_of_Toronto.
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- Magnetic_resonance_elastography wikiPageWikiLinkText "Magnetic resonance elastography".
- Magnetic_resonance_elastography wikiPageWikiLinkText "magnetic resonance elastography".
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- Magnetic_resonance_elastography hypernym Technique.
- Magnetic_resonance_elastography type Software.
- Magnetic_resonance_elastography comment "Magnetic resonance elastography (MRE) is a non-invasive medical imaging technique that measures the mechanical properties (stiffness) of soft tissues by introducing shear waves and imaging their propagation using MRI. Pathological tissues are often stiffer than the surrounding normal tissue. For instance, malignant breast tumors are much harder than healthy fibro-glandular tissue. This characteristic has been used by physicians for screening and diagnosis of many diseases, through palpation.".
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- Magnetic_resonance_elastography depiction Murphy_2013_brain_MRE_with_wave_image.png.
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