Nondiffuse fatty infiltration of the liver: Does the uptake of iron-oxide increase or decrease at SPIO-enhanced MR imaging?

European Journal of Radiology

Volumn 79, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Onoda, Hideko ^a   Ito, Katsuyoshi ^a,b   Tanabe, Masahiro ^a   Shimizu, Ayame ^a   Matsunaga, Naofumi ^a  

^a YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b KAWASAKI MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cirrhosis; Fatty liver; MRI; SPIO

Indexed keywords

SUPERPARAMAGNETIC IRON OXIDE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FATTY LIVER; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SIGNAL DETECTION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CONTRAST MEDIA; DEXTRANS; FATTY LIVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETITE NANOPARTICLES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 80052153164     PISSN: 0720048X     EISSN: 18727727     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejrad.2011.04.004     Document Type: Article

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