Evaluation of noncirrhotic hepatic parenchyma with and without significant portal vein stenosis using diffusion-weighted echo-planar MR on the basis of multiple-perfusion-components theory

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 64-73

  Moteki, Takao ^a   Horikoshi, Hiroyuki ^b  

^a Fujioka General Hospital   (Japan)

^b Gunma Cancer Center   (Japan)

Author keywords

Diffusion; Liver; Perfusion

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTICLE; BILE DUCT OBSTRUCTION; BILE DUCT TUMOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FEMALE; HEPATIC ARTERY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LIVER PARENCHYMA; LIVER PERFUSION; LIVER TUMOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PANCREAS TUMOR; PHANTOM; PORTAL VEIN OBSTRUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ECHO-PLANAR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIVER; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PORTAL VEIN; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VENOUS THROMBOSIS;

EID: 78649980837     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2010.07.008     Document Type: Article

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