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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Journal of Thyroid Research Volume 2012, Article ID 657147, 6 pages doi:10.1155/2012/657147 Research Article Shear Wave Elastography May Add a New Dimension to Ultrasound Evaluation of Thyroid Nodules: Case Series with Comparative Evaluation Rafal Z. Slapa,1 Antoni Piwowonski,2 Wieslaw S. Jakubowski,1 Jacek Bierca,3 Kazimierz T. Szopinski,4 Jadwiga Slowinska-Srzednicka,5 Bartosz Migda,1 and R. Krzysztof Mlosek1 1 Department of Diagnostic Imaging, Second Faculty of Medicine, Medical University of Warsaw, ul. Kondratowicza 8, 03-242 Warsaw, Poland 2 NZ0Z Almed, 37-500 Jarosław, Poland 3 Surgery Department, Solec Hospital, 00-382 Warsaw, Poland 4 Department of Dental and Maxillofacial Radiology, Institute of Stomatology, First Faculty of Medicine, Medical University of Warsaw, 02-006 Warsaw, Poland 5 Department of Endocrinology, Centre for Postgraduate Medical Education, 01-809 Warsaw, Poland Correspondence should be addressed to Rafal Z. Slapa, r.slapa@acn.waw.pl Received 2 February 2012; Accepted 5 March 2012 Academic Editor: P. Beck-Peccoz Copyright © 2012 Rafal Z. Slapa et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Although elastography can enhance the differential diagnosis of thyroid nodules, its diagnostic performance is not ideal at present. Further improvements in the technique and creation of robust diagnostic criteria are necessary. The purpose of this study was to compare the usefulness of strain elastography and a new generation of elasticity imaging called supersonic shear wave elastography (SSWE) in differential eva