Short- and midterm repeatability of magnetic resonance elastography in healthy volunteers at 3.0T

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 665-670

  Shi, Yu ^a   Guo, Qiyong ^a   Xia, Fei ^a   Sun, Jiaxing ^a   Gao, Yuying ^a  

^a CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Healthy volunteers; Liver; MR elastography; Repeatability; Stiffness

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; DIGESTIVE TRACT PARAMETERS; ELASTOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIVER STIFFNESS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ELASTOGRAPHY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PORTAL VEIN BLOOD FLOW; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEX DIFFERENCE; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; LIVER; PROCEDURES; YOUNG MODULUS;

ELASTIC MODULUS; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; HEALTHY VOLUNTEERS; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIVER; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84901058411     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: 18735894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2014.02.018     Document Type: Article

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