Simultaneous assessment of liver volume and whole liver fat content: A step towards one-stop shop preoperative MRI protocol

European Radiology

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 301-309

  D'Assignies, Gaspard ^a,b   Kauffmann, Claude ^c   Boulanger, Yvan ^a   Bilodeau, Marc ^a   Vilgrain, Valérie ^b   Soulez, Gilles ^c   Tang, An ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTREAL   (Canada)

^b BEAUJON HOSPITAL   (France)

^c NOTRE DAME HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Fatty liver disease; Hepatic volume; Liver fat; Liver segmentation; MRI

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; FAT CONTENT; FATTY LIVER; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; LIPID ANALYSIS; LIVER WEIGHT; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHMS; FATTY LIVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LIVER; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN SIZE; PREOPERATIVE CARE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 79951956144     PISSN: 09387994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00330-010-1941-1     Document Type: Article

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