A feasibility study to evaluate splanchnic arterial and venous hemodynamics by flow-sensitive 4D MRI compared with Doppler ultrasound in patients with cirrhosis and controls

European Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 669-675

  Stankovic, Zoran ^a   Csatari, Zoltan ^b   Deibert, Peter ^c   Euringer, Wulf ^b   Jung, Bernd ^b   Kreisel, Wolfgang ^c   Geiger, Julia ^b   Russe, Maximilian F ^b   Langer, Mathias ^b   Markl, Michael ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Medical Physics ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

4D MRI; liver cirrhosis; liver hemodynamics; splanchnic system

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PORTAL VEIN; PORTAL VEIN BLOOD FLOW; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SUPERIOR MESENTERIC VEIN; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

AGED; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MESENTERIC ARTERY, SUPERIOR; MESENTERIC VEINS; MIDDLE AGED; PORTAL VEIN; SPLANCHNIC CIRCULATION; SPLENIC VEIN; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER;

EID: 84877035651     PISSN: 0954691X     EISSN: 14735687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MEG.0b013e32835e1297     Document Type: Article

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