Evaluation of the mean and entropy of apparent diffusion coefficient values in chronic hepatitis C: Correlation with pathologic fibrosis stage and inflammatory activity grade

Radiology

Volumn 258, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 739-748

  Fujimoto, Kiminori ^a,b   Tonan, Tatsuyuki ^a   Azuma, Sanae ^a   Kage, Masayoshi ^a   Nakashima, Osamu ^a   Johkoh, Takeshi ^c   Hayabuchi, Naofumi ^a   Okuda, Koji ^a   Kawaguchi, Takumi ^a   Sata, Michio ^a   Qayyum, Aliya ^d  

^a KURUME UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b KURUME UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c Kinki Central Hospital of Mutual Association of Public School Teachers   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; APPARENT DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ENTROPY; FEMALE; HEPATITIS C; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFLAMMATION; LIVER FIBROSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; HEPATITIS C, CHRONIC; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ROC CURVE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 79952296058     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.10100853     Document Type: Article

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