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Influence of age, sex, body mass index, alcohol, and smoking on shear wave velocity (p-SWE) of the pancreas

Authors: Sabina Stumpf, Heike Jaeger, Tilmann Graeter, Suemeyra Oeztuerk, Julian Schmidberger, Mark Martin Haenle, Wolfgang Kratzer, The Elasto-Study Group Ulm

Published in: Abdominal Radiology | Issue 7/2016

Abstract

Purpose

A variety of elastographic techniques have been developed to facilitate the non-invasive assessment of tissue properties. The goal of the study was to examine the influence of gender, age, BMI, alcohol consumption, and smoking in healthy volunteers.

Methods

Of the 263 participants who met all the study inclusion criteria, 234 had successful measurements. The examination was performed with the Siemens Acuson S3000 (Siemens Healthcare, Erlangen, Germany), using the 6C1 curved array transducer with the virtual touch tissue quantification (VTQ) method.

Results

The values determined with the curved array in the head of the pancreas were 1.44 ± 0.39 m/s for women and 1.19 ± 0.29 m/s for men; in the body, the results were 1.49 ± 0.37 m/s for women and 1.26 ± 0.30 m/s for men; in the tail, the corresponding values were 1.29 ± 0.36 m/s for women and 1.05 ± 0.30 m/s for men. Comparison of gender showed that men have significantly lower mean values than women. There were significantly higher values in all parts of the organ with the increasing age of the participants (p < 0.0001). For BMI, there was a significant correlation with the values only when considering the BMI in continuous form. Alcohol consumption and smoking did not have any significant effects.

Conclusions

ARFI-VTQ is qualified for use on pancreatic tissue. Further studies are required to examine the influence of other factors in larger populations.

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Title: Influence of age, sex, body mass index, alcohol, and smoking on shear wave velocity (p-SWE) of the pancreas
Authors: Sabina Stumpf
Heike Jaeger
Tilmann Graeter
Suemeyra Oeztuerk
Julian Schmidberger
Mark Martin Haenle
Wolfgang Kratzer
The Elasto-Study Group Ulm
Publication date: 01-07-2016
Publisher: Springer US
Published in: Abdominal Radiology / Issue 7/2016
Print ISSN: 2366-004X
Electronic ISSN: 2366-0058
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00261-016-0661-7

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