Quantification of hepatic steatosis with MRI: The effects of accurate fat spectral modeling

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1332-1339

  Reeder, Scott B ^a,b,c   Robson, Philip M ^d   Yu, Huanzhou ^e   Shimakawa, Ann ^e   Hines, Catherine D G ^a,c   McKenzie, Charles A ^f   Brittain, Jean H ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

^d HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^e GE HEALTHCARE   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Dixon imaging; Fat water imaging; Hepatic steatosis; IDEAL; Magnetic resonance imaging; MR spectroscopy; Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FATTY LIVER; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIPID ANALYSIS; MALE; NONALCOHOLIC FATTY LIVER; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

ADULT; AGED; FATTY LIVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LINEAR MODELS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 66749106248     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: 15222586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.21751     Document Type: Article

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