1. Enhanced ultrasound imaging
Subhas Banerjee, MD, Bradley A. Barth, MD, David J. Desilets, MD, Vivek Kaul, MD, Sripathi R. Kethu, MD, Marcos C. Pedrosa, MD, Patrick R. Pfau, MD, Jeffrey L. Tokar, MD, Shyam Varadarajulu, MD, Amy Wang, MD, Louis-Michel Wong Kee Song, MD, Sarah A. Rodriguez, MD 
Gastrointestinal Endoscopy 
Volume 73, Issue 5, Pages (May 2011)
DOI: /j.gie
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2. Figure 1
The principle of elastography. The tissue is evaluated with US. A, At rest, the harder tissue (depicted as the circular marble mass) within the softer organ. B, After compression, the harder tissue will be less distorted than the surrounding tissues. The US waves will travel faster through the less-deformed hard mass. E, echoendoscope.
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