Talk:Magnetic resonance elastography

Inclusion of brain review paper

per WP:MEDRS Secondary sources are prefarable to primary. There is a widely cited review paper on brain MRE that should lead the brain MRE section:

Hiscox LV, Johnson CL, Barnhill E, McGarry MD, Huston J, van Beek EJ, Starr JM, Roberts N (December 2016). "Magnetic resonance elastography (MRE) of the human brain: technique, findings and clinical applications". Phys Med Biol. 61 (24): R401–R437. doi:10.1088/0031-9155/61/24/R401. PMID 27845941.

Disclosure, I am a middle author on this paper, but it is widely cited.

Edinburghpotsdam (talk) 00:23, 27 June 2021 (UTC)

Use of textbook as primary source

per WP:MEDBOOK textbooks by high quality publishers are a preferred secondary source. Given that there is a textbook on this technique:

"Magnetic Resonance Elastography | Wiley Online Books".

I think it would be good to follow the recommended protocols and use it as lead citation in the article. That's what I'll do but revert if you wish to discuss.

Edinburghpotsdam (talk) 00:11, 27 June 2021 (UTC)

Hepatic fibrosis and MR elastography

Hi. I believe the article says that this is an important application for this technology. Would it be useful to add that? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Contentmaven (talk • contribs) 19:37, 8 October 2009 (UTC)

"Shear waves"

The article is unclear about what kind of "shaer waves"? I would guess acoustic waves producing vibration of the tissue? And the image is generated by essentially comparing the amplitude of movement in different areas?

As we are talking about a variation of an MRI here, I first thought it must refer to an electromagnetic wave.

If this is correct, would be great if somebody knowledgeable was able to add detail about how this can work. For example, absorption of that shaer wave is likely going to be dramatically different in different tissues, and somehow that needs to be compensated for.

J12t (talk) 19:09, 19 February 2016 (UTC)