Research progress of shear wave dispersion imaging in the evaluation of liver disease
HAN Mengyuan
DUAN Shuhui
XU Haoyang
XIONG Zhengbiao
WANG Kun
LIU Feifei
Yan Junhong
Abstract：Liver disease has a high morbidity and poor prognosis,and shear wave elastography,a new ultrasound technique for detecting liver disease in recent years,is limited since it ignores the effect of tissue viscosity when determining tissue elasticity.Shear wave dispersion,an innovative non-invasive ultrasound imaging approach,uses the shear waves'dispersion slope to analyze the viscoelastic characteristics of tissues.Because the liver contains viscous and elastic mechanical properties,shear wave dispersion is considered a valuable tool for diagnosing liver disease.This paper reviewed the physical principles of shear wave dispersion and its clinical application in evaluating diffuse and focal liver disease.Additionally,The limitations of shear wave dispersion and its future development prospects were summarized,to provide new ideas for early liver disease diagnosis.
Keywords：shear wave dispersion imagingliver diseaseassessmentprogress
Publication Date：2025-01-27
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：6( 120-125 )