Assessment of the liver strain among cirrhotic and normal livers using tagged MRI

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1490-1495

  Mannelli, Lorenzo ^a   Wilson, Gregory J ^b   Dubinsky, Theodore J ^a   Potter, Christopher A ^a   Bhargava, Puneet ^a   Cuevas, Carlos ^a   Linnau, Ken F ^a   Kolokythas, Orpheus ^a   Gunn, Martin L ^a   Maki, Jeffrey H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b PHILIPS HEALTHCARE   (United States)

Author keywords

cirrhosis; elastography; fibrosis; liver; MR imaging; stiffness; tag MR imaging

Indexed keywords

GADOLINIUM;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; HEART; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE WALL; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER PARENCHYMA; MAGNETIZATION TAGGED NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHMS; ELASTIC MODULUS; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIVER; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84869402598     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: 15222586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.23743     Document Type: Article

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