Performance of Shear Wave Elastography in Delineating the Radiofrequency Ablation Boundary: An in Vivo experiment

Liya Su1, Wenshuo Tian1, Ming Xu1

  • 1Department of Medical Ultrasound, First Affiliated Hospital, Institute of Diagnostic and Interventional Ultrasound, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China.

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