MR elastography of the liver at 3 T with cine-tagging and bending energy analysis: Preliminary results

European Radiology

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 2381-2389

  Watanabe, Haruo ^a   Kanematsu, Masayuki ^a   Kitagawa, Teruhiko ^b   Suzuki, Yuriko ^c   Kondo, Hiroshi ^a   Goshima, Satoshi ^a   Kajita, Kimihiro ^a   Bae, Kyongtae T ^d   Hirose, Yoshinobu ^a   Miotani, Seiki ^e   Zhou, Xiangrong ^e   Fujita, Hiroshi ^e  

^a GIFU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b GIFU NATIONAL COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e GIFU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

3 Tesla; Cine tagging; Elastography; Liver fibrosis; MR imaging

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BENDING ENERGY; CINE TAGGING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELASTOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LIVER; LIVER FIBROSIS; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCORING SYSTEM;

ADULT; AGED; AREA UNDER CURVE; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; FIBROSIS; HEPATITIS, CHRONIC; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIVER; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING, CINE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 77957872405     PISSN: 09387994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00330-010-1800-0     Document Type: Article

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