Assessment of hepatic perfusion in transplanted livers by pharmacokinetic analysis of dynamic magnetic resonance measurements

Investigative Radiology

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 224-229

  Scharf, Johann ^a   Kemmling, Andre ^a   Hess, Thomas ^b   Mehrabi, Arianeb ^b   Kauffmann, Guenter ^b   Groden, Christoph ^a   Brix, Gunnar ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Contrast media; Dynamic MRI; Liver perfusion; Magnetic resonance imaging

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; BLOOD VOLUME; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIVER PERFUSION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

EID: 33947108448     PISSN: 00209996     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.rli.0000255892.07208.f2     Document Type: Article

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