Clinical performance of balloon-inflation-based elasticity imaging for prostate cancer diagnosis

T. Matsumura, M. Tsutsumi, S. Ishikawa, T. Miyagawa, Y. Fujihara, A. Tonomura, T. Osaka, R. Shinomura, T. Mitake, H. Kanda, T. Shiina

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Abstract

In the previous report [1], we have applied free-hand "Real-time Tissue Elastography" on the prostate cancer detection using transrectal probe and presented preliminary results to reveal its promising capability to realize high sensitivity for almost prostate diagnosis. It is also shown that free-hand method has some limitations come from ununiformity of compression and discontinuities between frame to frame. In this report, we present our latest clinical evaluation using balloon-inflation-based Elastography as proposed briefly in the previous paper [1].

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2007 IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium Proceedings, IUS
Pages1349-1352
Number of pages4
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2007
Externally publishedYes
Event2007 IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium, IUS - New York, NY, United States
Duration: 2007 Oct 282007 Oct 31

Publication series

NameProceedings - IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium
ISSN (Print)1051-0117

Conference

Conference2007 IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium, IUS
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityNew York, NY
Period07/10/2807/10/31

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Acoustics and Ultrasonics

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