Using Body Noise to Improve Cancer Detection | by Daryle Lockhart | inTech @Pharmative
Using the body's own 'seismic noise,' passive elastography allows more effective imaging deep inside the body to assist in tumor diagnosis. Elastography is sometimes referred as “seismology of the human body”. It’s an emerging technology used to enhance medical ultrasound imaging.
Stefan Catheline, research director of the INSERM LabTAU Unit 1032 at the University of Lyon, France, discussed this, and other elastography advances, during Acoustics '17 Boston, the third joint meeting of the Acoustical Society of America and the European Acoustics Association, which was held in June in Boston, Massachusetts.
By measuring the elasticity of biological tissue, it looks like elastography is becoming a more accurate - and early - way to diagnose cancer or liver and thyroid disease. "Passive elastography is foreseen as a viable technique for cancer detection in organs deep in the body, such as the prostate or liver, for well-protected organs such as the brain, and for fragile organs such as the eye,” shared Catheline.
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Using the body's own 'seismic noise,' passive elastography allows more effective imaging deep inside the body to assist in tumor diagnosis. Elastography is sometimes referred as “seismology of the human body”. It’s an emerging technology used to enhance medical ultrasound imaging.
Stefan Catheline, research director of the INSERM LabTAU Unit 1032 at the University of Lyon, France, discussed this, and other elastography advances, during Acoustics '17 Boston, the third joint meeting of the Acoustical Society of America and the European Acoustics Association, which was held in June in Boston, Massachusetts.
By measuring the elasticity of biological tissue, it looks like elastography is becoming a more accurate - and early - way to diagnose cancer or liver and thyroid disease. "Passive elastography is foreseen as a viable technique for cancer detection in organs deep in the body, such as the prostate or liver, for well-protected organs such as the brain, and for fragile organs such as the eye,” shared Catheline.
TAGS: #Elastography #SeismologyOfHumanBody #inTech @PHARMATIVE
Nice article Daryle.