MRI for evaluation of potential living liver donors: A new approach including contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance cholangiography

Abdominal Imaging

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 244-251

  Mangold, S ^a   Bretschneider, C ^a   Fenchel, M ^a   Seeger, A ^a   Kramer, U ^a   Klumpp, B ^a   Nadalin, S ^a   Konigsrainer A ^a   Claussen, C D ^a   Miller, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Gadolinium EOB DTPA; Liver transplantation; Living donors; Magnetic resonance angiography; Magnetic resonance cholangiography

Indexed keywords

GADOBENATE DIMEGLUMINE; GADOBUTROL; GADOXETIC ACID; MANGAFODIPIR; MEGLUMINE IOTROXATE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BILIARY TRACT EXAMINATION; BOLUS INJECTION; CHOLANGIOGRAPHY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; LIVER CIRCULATION; LIVER STRUCTURE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER WEIGHT; LIVING DONOR; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE CHOLANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADULT; CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY, MAGNETIC RESONANCE; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; GADOLINIUM DTPA; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIVER; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 84863728047     PISSN: 09428925     EISSN: 14320509     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00261-011-9736-7     Document Type: Article

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