Sentence examples for stiff areas from inspiring English sources

Elasticity scores of 2 indicate lesions that are mainly soft, but have some stiff areas compared with the normal tissue.

This would not be so if the stiff areas surrounding cancers that appear normal on greyscale ultrasound represent small foci of invasive cancer.

Other criteria such as margin regularity, distribution of stiff areas (e.g. peripheral rim versus central) and area ratios may also be included.

The heat also loosens the tissues and ligaments in the stiff area, increasing their range of movement.

Two independent observers recorded the maximum stiffness, mean stiffness and SD within a ROI placed in the stiffest areas on the colour maps on both of the two elastography images obtained.

Our symbolic model is used to display the stiffest areas of the workspace for a specific machining task.

By convention, the elastograms display a colour-coded map of the relative elasticity (stiffer areas are depicted as blue and softer areas are red; green indicates an intermediate level of elasticity).

Observers noted the mean elasticity values in regions of interest (ROI) placed over the stiffest areas on the two elastography images and a mean value was calculated for each lesion.

Thus, a small and stiff antral area, might mainly account for epigastric fullness in SSc patients, rather than a delayed gastric emptying "per se".

Therefore, it is expected that, in the same cell, tachyzoites can penetrate by the classical forward progression and static junction or instead can trigger junction retrograde capping when they encounter a stiffer cortex area.

There may have been some confusion on the part of investigators in assessing the "similarity" of SWE images in that three acquisitions each showing heterogeneous stiff and soft areas in a given lesion and its surrounding tissue are indeed similar to each other but were sometimes rated as "dissimilar" by investigators.