Elasticity imaging via MRI: Basics, overcoming the waveguide limit, and clinical liver results

Current Medical Imaging Reviews

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 56-63

  Sinkus, Ralph ^a   Daire, Jean Luc ^a   Vilgrain, Valérie ^a   van Beers, Bernard E ^a  

^a BEAUJON HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Lamb waves; Liver fibrosis; MR elastography; Waveguide limit

Indexed keywords

BLOOD ANALYSIS; ELASTICITY; ELASTOGRAPHY; FLOW KINETICS; HUMAN; LIVER FIBROSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VOLUMETRY;

EID: 80055116991     PISSN: 15734056     EISSN: 18756506     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/157340512799220544     Document Type: Review

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