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VTIQ was applied to measure the shear-wave velocity (SWV) of both normal and affected supraspinatus tendon. The differences of SWV in three types of supraspinatus tendon tear and receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves were analyzed. RESULTS: Among 80 patients, there were 20 tendinopathy, 31 partial tears and 29 full-thickness tears diagnosed by shoulder arthroscopy. Sensitivity, specificity and accuracy of 2D ultrasound in diagnosis of tendinopathy, partial tear and full-thickness tear groups were 78%, 90%and 83%; 71%, 86%and 73%; 86%, 88%and 88%, respectively. SWV of 80 supraspinatus tendon tears was 4.59\u00b11.00\u200am\/s, which was lower than that of normal supraspinatus tendon (4.59\u00b11.00\u200am\/s vs. 6.68\u00b11.05\u200am\/s, P\u200a&lt;\u200a0.01). SWV of supraspinatus tendon in tendinopathy, partial tear and full-thickness tear groups respectively were 5.66\u00b10.97, 4.66\u00b11.00, and 3.78\u00b10.55\u200am\/s, all lower than that of the contralateral normal supraspinatus tendon (all P\u200a&lt;\u200a0.05). In addition, the analysis of variance and pairwise comparison showed that SWV of supraspinatus tendon among three different degree of injury was statistically significant (all P\u200a&lt;\u200a0.001). The cutoff thresholds of SWV was 4.83\u200am\/s to identify tendinopathy tear from partial tear and was 4.08\u200am\/s to identify full-thickness tear from partial-thickness tear. 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