Poster: Tissue Strain Analytics for Breast LesionsCases courtesy of Dirk-André Clevert, M.D. – Grosshadern, Munich, Germany

Conventional ultrasound criteria such as irregular margins, shadowing, microlobulations, echogenicity and shape can be applied to help distinguish benign from malignant breast lesions. In addition, the compressibility of a breast lesion can be used as a further criterion; as in general, breast cancer tissue is stiffer and less deformable than the adjacent normal breast tissue.

This poster from Siemens Healthcare illustrates tissue strain imaging through clinical examples using Siemens proprietary suite of elastography and acoustic radiation force imaging (ARFI) strain technologies: eSie Touch™ Elasticity Imaging Technology, Virtual Touch™ Tissue Imaging and Virtual Touch™ Tissue Quantification* Technologies.

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*Virtual Touch applications are not available in the United States.}