Ioan Sporea

TL;DR: The technical part of these Guidelines and Recommendations provides an introduction to the physical principles and technology on which all forms of current commercially available ultrasound elastography are based.

TL;DR: The clinical part of these Guidelines and Recommendations produced under the auspices of the European Federation of Societies for Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology EFSUMB assesses the clinically used applications of all forms of elastography, stressing the evidence from meta-analyses and giving practical advice for their uses and interpretation.

TL;DR: The first update of the 2013 EFSUMB (European Federation of Societies for Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology) Guidelines and Recommendations on the clinical use of elastography is presented, focused on the assessment of diffuse liver disease.

TL;DR: The World Federation for Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology has produced these guidelines for the use of elastography techniques in liver disease, aimed at assessing the usefulness ofElastography in the management of liver diseases.

TL;DR: The fundamental physics and the associated terminology underlying elasticity imaging technologies are described to ensure that the terminology and descriptions are broadly compatible across the WFUMB and EFSUMB sets of guidelines on elastography.