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Digital Ultrasound Scanner - ELASTOGRAPHY |
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DIGITAL ULTRASOUND SCANNER - ELASTOGRAPHY
A new technique for diagnosis of tissue diseases using Tissue Elasticity Imaging.
An innovative ultrasound modality for the assessment of tissue elasticity
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Hitachi Real-time Tissue Elastography is an emerging technology in ultrasound diagnosis for the assessment and real-time colour display of tissue elasticity. The benefit of this new generation ultrasound technology has been studied in different clinical areas including breast, urology, prostate, thyroid, endoscopy and many other applications.
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A unique technology… |
- Extracting strain data through measurements from the Strain Ratio tool
- Performing fast, accurate and reproducible results
- Incorporating an adjustable colour transparency feature enabling a co-relation between the native B-mode and elastography image in real-time
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Hitachi Real-time Tissue Elastography is compatible with over 20 different transducers and its diagnostic value has been proven in a variety of different clinical areas, notably breast, urology, pancreas and lymph nodes.
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Breast In breast applications, Hitachi Real-time Tissue Elastography has a complementary diagnostic role to the conventional B-mode:
- The assessment of elasticity can be made in real-time
- The Tsukuba score classification is simple to use and suitable for routine clinical use (see figure 3)
- Hitachi Real-time Tissue Elastography is proven in multicentre studies to be an effective and reproducible US modality and is not time-consuming
- Hitachi Real-time Tissue Elastography offers increased specificity afforded by the addition of new benign criteria
- Hitachi Real-time Tissue Elastography has the potential to eliminate unnecessary benign core biopsies especially in breast masses categorised as BI-RADS categories 3 and 4
- The Fat to Lesion Ratio (Strain Ratio) can provide greater objectivity in assessing the elastography image
The lesion proven to be carcinoma by biopsy. Both color and strain ratio of elastography show positive result of hardness.
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Thyroid Thyroid nodules are very common, but less than 5% are malignant. Conventional US can predict malignancy with high specificity in less than 20% patients.
- Hitachi Real-time Tissue Elastography can provide quick and easy characterisation of thyroid nodules thereby allowing identification of patients at high risk of malignancy
- A low elasticity score on Hitachi Real-time Tissue Elastography (stiff lesion) has been shown to be highly predictive of malignancy
- An entirely elastic nodule pattern has been observed only in relation to benign nodules, in which case the indication for a biopsy is questionable
- In a multinodular goiter, high true positive results have been achieved when Hitachi Real-time Tissue Elastography is used to target a particular nodule for biopsy which is hard on Hitachi Real-time Tissue Elastography
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Liver Histological diagnosis by liver biopsy is important for assessing the stage of liver fibrosis, but assessment is sometimes difficult due to invasive nature of the procedure. With developed Elastography uses the combined autocorrelation method to rapidly calculate the relative hardness of tissue from the degree of tissue distortion for evaluation of hepatic fibrosis with chronic hepatitis C and display the information as real-time, color images.
With elastography, the obtained liver elasticity score becoming significantly higher as the staging increased, satisfactorily reflecting the degree of fibrosis
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Urology Hitachi Real-time Tissue Elastography of the prostate offers a new approach for the detection and visualisation of cancer:
- Hitachi Real-time Tissue Elastography can detect prostate cancer foci with good accuracy
- It allows the estimation of tumour location and extent
- The cancer yield with Hitachi Real-time Tissue Elastography - guided targeted biopsies can equal that of systematic biopsy for less than half the number of cores
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Hitachi Real-time Tissue Elastography |
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