Magnetic resonance elastography and acoustic radiation force impulse for staging hepatic fibrosis: a meta-analysis

Abdominal Imaging

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 818-834

  Guo, Yang ^a   Parthasarathy, Sudharshan ^b   Goyal, Preeya ^a   McCarthy, Robert J ^a   Larson, Andrew C ^a,c   Miller, Frank H ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ROSALIND FRANKLIN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE   (United States)

^c Northwestern University   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic radiation force impulse; Hepatic fibrosis; Magnetic resonance imaging; Meta analysis; MR elastography

Indexed keywords

AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ELASTOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LIVER; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; META ANALYSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

AREA UNDER CURVE; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 84897359503     PISSN: 09428925     EISSN: 14320509     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00261-014-0137-6     Document Type: Article

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